If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

  • -- Stephen King 斯蒂芬金

如果你想成为一名作家,你首先必须做两件事:大量阅读和大量写作。据我所知,这两件事是无法回避的,没有捷径可走。

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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

我学会了尊重思想,无论它们来自何方。他们通常来自客户。不管一些作家怎么想,客户经理通常都有很大的创意。

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

毫无疑问,那些写长篇小说的人无话可说。 当然,那些写短篇小说的人就更不用说了。

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

写第二部小说的难度似乎与第一部小说的成功程度成正比。

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

作者的主要关注点是真实性;因此,他必须保持思想和判断自由。

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

他说他不想再发生战争之类的事情。

I want to live in your memory.

我想活在你的记忆里。