To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

写出值得出版的东西,找到诚实的人出版它,让明智的人阅读它,这是成为作家的三大困难。

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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

当我第一次开始写作时,是通过音乐。我会想出一些歌曲的创意,然后把它们变成故事,再把它们变成小说。我对音乐有偏见。

Writing by hand, mouthing by mouth: in each case you get a very strong physical sense of the emergence of language...print obliterates it, type has no drawl.

用手写,用嘴说:在每种情况下,你都会对语言的出现有一种非常强烈的身体上的感觉……打印消除它,类型没有拖长。