I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

  • -- George Woodcock 乔治·伍德科克

我不赞成踢掉梯子。我指的是我作为一个年轻作家所攀登的阶梯,那些不收费的小杂志,诸如此类的东西。

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For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

对我来说,仅仅登上杂志封面是不够的。我开始思考,做一件没有创造性投入的事情有什么价值?

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

写故事或小说是在经历中发现顺序的一种方式,是在作者自己的生活中偶然发现因果关系的一种方式。

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

我总是阅读来自世界各地最新的烹饪书籍和杂志。

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

没有哪位作家能真正维持两大出版商的经营——我讨厌“专营权”这个词。