Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  • -- E. L. Doctorow 达特罗

计划写作不是写作。概述、研究、和别人谈论你正在做的事情,这些都不是写作。写作是写作。

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Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

沉默不是故事的自然环境。他们需要的话。没有他们,他们变得苍白,生病和死亡。然后他们缠着你。

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

创造性的努力和改变思维的物质是交织在一起的,这是我们这个时代最伟大的流行知识神话之一。

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

我对自己下一步或未来想做什么没有太多的计划。

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

当我们为后代做打算时,我们应该记住美德不是遗传的。