The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

创造性的作家不仅是生活的受害者,也是生活的使用者;在他的作品中,他能够控制自我表现,而事实上,他的自我表现是受上千次事故的摆布。

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Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before.

对于一个作家来说,没有什么比重复他以前说过的话更有吸引力的了。

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

作家言而无信,言而无信。