Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  • -- Alice Walker 爱丽丝·沃克

把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书,如果艺术不能让我们变得更好,那么它到底是为了什么。

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You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

你赞扬他们在写作上的坚定克制——我当然同意你的看法:他们用的是马嚼子和马路边石,不错,可那匹该死的马呢?

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

给那些想要在没有任何恼人延迟的情况下取得成功的年轻作家的建议:不要写男人,写男人。

I write for the same reason I breathe... because if I didn't, I would die.

我写作的原因和我呼吸的原因一样……因为如果我不这样做,我就会死。

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

重写对我来说意味着,如果我写了三天,我就重写了它。