If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

如果你在生活中专注于自律,那么你在写作时就会比在和朋友一起玩或从事其他工作时更聪明。

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I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

我并不真的打算成为一名流行歌星;我只是想做音乐,而不是像我爸爸那样,让所有处在我这个位置的人都经历这样的事情。

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

如果一个人没有足够的天赋成为小说家,没有足够的智慧成为律师,并且他的手太不稳而不能执行操作,他就会成为一名记者。

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

我听到了关于宇宙的说法,听到了,听到了几千年;就目前而言,它还算不错——但就这些吗?

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

写第二部小说的难度似乎与第一部小说的成功程度成正比。

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

为了得到尊重,权威必须是受人尊敬的。