The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

这位艺术家没有时间听批评家们的批评。那些想成为作家的人读评论,那些想写作的人没有时间读评论。

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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

对我来说,武术的非凡之处在于它的简单。简单的方法也是正确的方法,武术没什么特别的;越接近武术的真道,表达的浪费就越少。

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

很久以前我就意识到,器乐比英语、西班牙语、意第绪语、斯瓦希里语等任何其他语言都要清晰得多。纯旋律走出时间。

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。

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

写书有点不同,因为就我而言,我的编辑比我小一岁,基本上和我有相同的敏感度。

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

我把我该做的事情列了个清单。

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

艺术家比乞丐重要得多吗?