You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

  • -- Aleksandar Hemon 亚历山大·黑蒙

你总是同时在写你最差的书和最好的书。赞美不会让你写得更好,也不应该让你写得更差。

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In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important — and often more profitable — than to be civil or creative or truly original.

在社会分裂的时代,粗俗成为一种生活方式。令人震惊变得比彬彬有礼、有创意或真正原创更重要,而且往往更有利可图。

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

在我上大学的时候,我对种族歧视问题变得非常警觉,我记得我最初的一次写作尝试与私刑有关。

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

绘画是一门诚实的艺术。作弊是不可能的。不是好就是坏。

You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

你要么跟我在一起,要么不跟我在一起。如果你没有,你就出局了。

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

我大声赞美。我轻轻地责备。

Good wine praises itself.

好酒自鸣得意。