You don’t write because you want to say something,you write because you’ve got something to say.
By F.S.Fitzgerald
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
By R.P.Warren
Nine?鄄tenths of the best poetry of the world has been written by poets less than thirty years old;a great deal more than half of it has been written by poets under twenty?鄄five.
By H.L.Menken
不是因為想說話而寫作,而是因為有話要說而寫作。
F.S.菲茨杰拉德(1896—1940,20世紀美國最杰出的小說家之一,著有《了不起的蓋茨比》)
作為作家,你的任務不是去闡明美德,而是要表明一個人一個人如何可能走向美德或遠離美德。
R.P.沃倫(1905—1989,美國作家,被譽為“博學多才的文藝復興式人物”,著有《羅伯特·潘·沃倫詩全集》)
世上最好的詩十分之九出自三十歲以下詩人之手,而其中絕大部分又出自二十五歲以下詩人之手。
H.L.門肯(1880—1956,20世紀美國最杰出的記者和編輯之一。著有學術性著作《美國語言》)
編輯/楊明珠