Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

每一个作家，无论多么谦虚，都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。

-- Logan Pearsall Smith 洛根·皮尔索尔·史密斯