Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

  • -- Katherine Paterson 凯瑟琳·佩特森

孩子们经常问我角色是真实的还是虚构的,我总是告诉他们,‘我希望他们是真实的,但我是虚构的。’

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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

所有的场景设置,对话,地点和时间以及你的角色移动的时间和地点。我想和角色一起前进,和他们一起前进,描述他们所生活的世界。

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

这让我意识到,有时候最重要的是什么没有说出来——为那些完全可以从演员脸上读到的没有对话的启示时刻做好准备。

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

我从来没有想过我的角色是悲伤的。相反,他们充满活力。他们没有选择悲剧。悲剧了。

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

如果有什么东西对改变有意义,那就太好了。