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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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

这根本不是写作。事实上,如果我知道我的意思,我可以说莎士比亚超越了文学。

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

由于我所处的环境无法减轻我的责任,而且总是让我分心,所以我不得不采用短篇小说的形式。