If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

  • -- Richard Price 理查德·普莱斯

如果我能在五分钟内把故事从头到尾讲完,我就准备开始写了。在这五分钟里,它是一个常数。

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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

我本可以用这种方式赚钱,或许还可以自娱自乐地编写代码。但我知道,在我的职业生涯结束时,当我回首多年来筑起隔离人们的高墙时,我会觉得我的一生让世界变得更糟。

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

当然,我在货币体系上已经采取了非常温和的立场,我确实认为我们应该结束美联储。

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

也许南方小说写作的例子是如此的强大,以至于南方的诗人在某种程度上把自己锁定在了这一点上。

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

我宁愿在抢劫银行时被抓住,也不愿从另一个作家那里偷走哪怕一个两个字的短语。

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

在一个刚起步的公司里,你基本上每三周就会抛出所有的假设。

I may have failed but i have loved you from the start.

我也许失败了,但我从一开始就爱你。