Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

  • -- Theodore Dreiser 西奥多·德莱塞

文字不过是我们所要表达的内容的模糊的影子。它们是微小的听觉联系,把伟大的、听不见的情感和目的连接在一起。

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In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

在系列音乐中,很少能听到系列音乐本身的声音。我感兴趣的是一个作曲的过程和一段动听的音乐,它们是一体的。

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了,那么你可以为孩子们写。

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

作家很少写他们所想的东西。他们只是把别人认为他们在想的事情写下来。

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

语言可以很好地表达事物的本来面目,但有时却不能表达事物的本来面目。

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

语言可以很强大。我发现它们很难。