I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

  • -- Maria Semple 玛丽亚·塞姆普

我为我的角色准备了一个精心制作的日历,详细记录了每件事发生的日期。我一直在修改。它给了我自由,让我可以复杂地构思我的故事,知道它至少会在时间轴上站得住。

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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

在战争中,每个人都知道瑞士,在和平时期,它只是瑞士,但在战争时期,它是唯一一个每个人都有信心的国家,每个人。

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

我已经说过很多次了,世界上似乎有足够的空间留给平庸的男人,而不是平庸的女人,我们真的必须非常非常努力地工作。

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

写作确实是一门创造性的艺术——把文字写在一张白纸上,以一个充满人物和情节的完整故事结尾。

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

在很多方面,电视写作教会了我如何成为一名优秀的说书人。我学到了对话,场景,情节的发展。