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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
作者必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
— John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
以一种不熟悉的风格去理解一幅画或一首交响乐，去认识一位艺术家或一所学校的作品，去以一种新的方式去看或听，就像学习阅读、写作或加法一样，是一种认知上的成就。
Nelson Goodman
古德曼
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
你读到的每件事都会对你写的每件事产生影响，你想在你的作品中尽可能多地加入元素。
Walter Jon Williams
沃尔特·乔恩·威廉斯
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
艺术是一种与生俱来的动力，它抓住一个人，使他成为它的工具。为了完成这一艰巨的任务，他有时必须牺牲幸福和使普通人的生活有价值的一切。
Carl Gustav Jung
卡尔·古斯塔夫·荣格
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo
写一本诗集就像把一片玫瑰花瓣扔进大峡谷，等待回音
Don Marquis
马奎斯
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
你写作不是因为你想说什么，而是因为你有话要说。
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.
失去某件事的可能性和失去希望是一回事，没有希望，什么也不能生存。
Mark Z. Danielewski
马克·Z·丹尼尔夫斯基