没有刻苦钻研的精神,就不能明辨事情的道理;没有专心致志的工作,就不会取得显赫的成绩。
煤炭造就了现代世界,我们有责任确保以智慧管理它的遗产。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.