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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Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

没有什么比写下自己的论点更能使思维过程变得敏锐的了。在口头讨论中被忽视的弱点在书面讨论中就会变得非常明显。

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People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.

人们会做出刻薄的评论。人们会说你很胖，你是这个，你是那个。你只要对自己的皮肤感到舒服就行了。

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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

我的意思是，我所知道的关于改变的一件事是，如果没有教育者，我们将无法缩小成就的差距。

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Easy reading is damn hard writing.

简单的阅读就是该死的写作。

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