They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

  • -- Lillian Florence Hellman 丽莲·海尔曼

作家们,他们喜欢谈论自己。如果我必须给年轻作家一些建议,我会说不要听作家谈论写作或他们自己。

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

写作的矛盾在于,它既可以被看作是一种行为,也可以被看作是一种解释过程,一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此,它既肯定又否定自己的本性。

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

你可以教一个关心写专栏的人,但你不能教一个写专栏的人去关心。