I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

事实上,我发现那些每一处都注定要搞笑的小说都很压抑。

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You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

你知道,在过去,你可能可以通过出版两三本小说来慢慢地为你的作品建立一个读者群,然后你就会大红大红。你知道,现在出版社更加强调确保每本书都能赚钱。

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

一旦我开始把我所有的不安全感都放在心里,我就不是在演戏了。那么这就是我的问题,而且永远不应该是我的问题。应该是关于角色的。

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.

当人们说“爱恨交加”的时候,他们实际上是在说“喜欢被吓到”——如果他们真的恨他们,他们永远不会重复一句口头禅。

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

当我发现自己无法证明上帝不是上帝时,我发现了他的存在。

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

我不想再结婚了,我要找一个我不喜欢的女人,给她一所房子。

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

我的小说来自我的内心;它们是我觉得我想做的事情。