When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

写小说的时候,作者应该创造活生生的人;人们不要字符。一个人物是一幅漫画。

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When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

当我在剧院的时候,我总是试图居住在一个空间里,把你作为一个演员放在显微镜下观察你的个性和你对生活的看法,但实际上是通过另一个角色的入口。

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

信件必须通过两项测试才能被归类为优秀:它们必须同时表达写信人和收信人的个性。

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

开始是如此重要。只要找到合适的时机来介绍这个角色,这个世界,就是一切。

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

对我来说,这似乎就是“小说”的定义:一个尚未找到简洁方式的故事。

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

我心里有本爱情小说,但我雇了三个水手用钢管把它打出来。

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

你可以通过一个人吃软心豆粒糖的方式来了解他的性格。

Don't get it right, just get it written.

不要把它写对,只要把它写下来。

If you wish to be a writer, write.

如果你想成为一名作家,那就写作吧。