课业工作繁忙,我争取每周更新分享几段新的精心摘录。
你如果跟我一样喜欢读书,新鲜事物,文字创作,或是单纯你想学英语,我相信这些话语会触碰到你的心,对你有所启发。
Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
—Octavia Butler
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett
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We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we're sitting in, forgetting it's lunchtime or time to go to work. We recreate, with minor and for the most part unimportant changes, the vivid and continuous dream the writer worked out in his mind (revising and revising until he got it right) and captured in language so that other human beings, whenever they feel like it, may open his book and dream that dream again.
―John Gardner
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
—Anton Chekhov
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
—Robert Frost