A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

严肃的作家不应与严肃的作家混为一谈。一个严肃的作家可能是一只鹰,一只秃鹰,甚至一只罂粟花,但一个严肃的作家总是一只血腥的猫头鹰。

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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

我的家人八个月来从未错过一次探望,从来没有。我哭着走了出来。我没有哭着进来。差别很大。我相信上帝把我关在这里是有原因的,监禁是很严重的。

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

作家毕竟只是书的一半。另一半是读者,作者从读者那里学习。

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

我不认为有什么特别的书让我想写。他们都做到了。我一直想写作。

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.

黄色通常表示病情没有那么严重。