There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。

-- William Gaddis 威廉·加迪斯