I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

  • -- Rose Tremain 罗斯·特瑞美

我总是对那些告诉我他们在一开始就计划好了一切的作家感到惊讶。我觉得他们的写作日子一定很平淡。

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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

我认为我为比我想象中更多的人写作的想法已经产生了一种文学和政治上的普遍责任。我甚至有一种自豪感,因为我不想落后于我以前所做的。

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

我必须做什么才能得救?问一个更重要的问题是不可能的!令人遗憾的是,我们听到这一问题的频率和痛苦都没有增加。

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

提供一个作家不被惯例所阻碍——有些是这样的——参加这些惯例可以从必要的写作孤立中得到很好的休息。

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

有时我害怕我说的那些话的真实性。但恐惧决不能显露出来。