I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石,然后再把它凿开,才能找到大理石中的人物。

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If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

如果我的职业生涯继续沿着目前的轨迹发展,人们可能会看着我,看到一个执迷于贫富关系,以及富人总是以某种方式背叛穷人的作家,即使他们并非有意如此。

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

同样,如果一个人不不断地努力抹去自己的个性,他就写不出任何可读的东西。好的散文就像一扇窗户。

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

我们在进攻方面有很大的潜力。但如果你没有意识到,真正的潜力并不意味着什么。

If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.

如果你有梦想,就坚持下去。但要把它写下来,并采取适当的行动来观察它的显现。