每个人皮肤下都住着几百个不同的人。作家的才能就是给他们各自命名、身份、个性并让他们互动。
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to each other.
I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know how to use it.