I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

  • -- Rose Tremain 罗斯·特瑞美

我可以以一种在当代小说中难以成功塑造的方式塑造任何角色。

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Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

生产是我一直想做的,即使当我滑冰的时候。我有点像海绵。当我四处比赛时,我总是问,‘那盏灯是做什么的?如果你想成功,你必须了解你周围的人在做什么。

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

我浪费了许多年的时间来写作,然后非常自豪地说:“现在……我的小说!很快就会变成一个短篇故事,然后变成一段。

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

一个成功的男人赚的钱比他妻子花的还多。一个成功的女人就是能找到这样的男人。

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.

当你是一个平民,你想要成功,当你成功了,你想再次成为一个平民。

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

一个人在危急时刻所能表现出来的性格,并不比他所能控制的更多。

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

我拥有成功所必需的所有缺点。

But in action, one defies one's character.

但在行动中,一个人违背了自己的性格。