I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

  • -- Toni Morrison 托尼·莫里森

只要想想地铁里的一个角色,我就能解决很多文学问题,在地铁里你什么都做不了。

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I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

我讨厌人们走在大街上,听着他们生活的原声,而不是他们所处的环境。我讨厌声音的溢出,地铁和地铁乘客都没有注意到,因为他们没有注意到周围的人和事。

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

当我写作的时候,我写了很多。我可能会写一页又一页的人物之间的对话,这些对话不一定会出现在书中,也不一定出现在我正在写的故事中,因为它们只是我了解人物的一种方式。

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

反正我自己也不是天生的健身爱好者。