The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

对于一个好的作家来说,最重要的礼物就是一个内置的防震狗屎探测器。这是作家的雷达,所有伟大的作家都有。

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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

写作有透视法、明暗法,就像绘画或音乐一样。如果你生下来就知道这些,那很好。如果没有,学习他们。然后根据自己的需要重新排列规则。

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

短篇小说是爱情故事,小说是婚姻。短篇小说是照片;小说是一部电影。

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

人之所以不能理解语言,是因为语言本身不能理解;不想明白。

I was born to travel and write verse.

我生来就是旅行和写诗的。