I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

  • -- Robert E. Howard 罗伯特·霍华德

我既没有专家的帮助,也没有别人的建议。我没有学习写作方面的课程;直到大约一年前,我还从未读过有人给作家写建议的书。

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

书并不是绝对没有生命的东西,但书中确实包含着生命的力量,使之像它的后代那样活跃;不,它们确实像小瓶一样,保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

我喜欢用第一人称写作,因为我喜欢成为我所写的角色。

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

我写作的原因和我阅读的原因是一样的:因为这就是我的全部。

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

如果你想成为普通人,你就不会读这本书。

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

我通常不会着手写三部曲。

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

在我的写作中如此诚实是一种宣泄。