I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  • -- William Styron 威廉·史泰隆

当我做得很好的时候,我有一种很好的温暖的感觉,但是这种快乐被每天开始的痛苦抵消了。让我们面对现实吧,写作是地狱。

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

如果我能给这个世界带来快乐,如果我能让人们暂时停止思考他们的痛苦,或者让他们明天早上起来斥责他们的老板……那我就成功了。

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

我喜欢写信和收信。真遗憾,我们失去了写信和保存信件的艺术。我哀悼。

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

我在院子里,以为这棵树是有生命的。我们认为树木是理所当然的。我们不相信他们像我们一样活着。

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

这就是阅读的问题:你总是不得不重新拾起前一天让你停止阅读的东西。

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

我的目标是以最好最简单的方式把我看到的和感觉到的写在纸上。

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

生活的全部艺术在于,好好把握每一次的放手与坚持。

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

没有一个嘴唇因为疼痛而弯曲,而不能再被吻成微笑。

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

今天一切都好,那只是我们的幻想。