If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

如果你写的是体裁小说,你就得遵守规则,而且你必须遵守规则,因为读者是这样期望的。

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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

我过去常常告诉我的写作学生,他们必须写他们希望能找到的书,因为这样他们渴望和渴望的书就会存在。

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

我总是说这是关于打破规则。但是,以一种有效的方式打破规则的秘密在于,首先要理解规则是什么。

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

互联网改变了一切。我们希望立即知道一切。如果你不懂数字通信,你就处于劣势。

I was never a knucklehead off the field. I was a person who abided by the rules and had been an upstanding guy you could count on, and still am.

我从来没有离开过球场。我是一个遵守规则的人,是一个你可以信赖的正直的人,现在仍然是。

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

我们不能指望所有人都能同时出现在我们身边。幸运的是,你只需要一个人。

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

我不会写字,不会画画,也不会作曲。