If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

  • -- Richard Yates 理查德·耶茨

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说,你永远也写不出来!

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Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

有创造力的人通常表现不太好。如果你想在演艺圈寻找良好关系的例子,你很快就会感到沮丧。除了工作和女儿,我现在没有时间做其他事情。她是我的第一要务。

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

我想,这是我那本愤怒的狄更斯式小说。这是一种宣泄——我在那件事上花费了很多挫折。

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

如果你一个人写小说,你就坐着,编一个小故事。这是好,但这无关紧要。

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

去年我在斯坦福大学读书,有时间读报纸。