The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

  • -- David Thomas Jones 大卫·托马斯·琼斯

问题是,读者不想听到糟糕的时代。

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I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

我希望我所有的书都能激起读者的某种反应,让他们思考一些东西或感受一些东西,或两者兼而有之,让它们成为他们的一部分,融入他们自己的生活。

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

我每天晚上都尝试一些新的东西。这是一个小时的节目;如果成功了,我可能会再试几次,然后把它移开,尝试一些新的东西。对我来说,这是一个很棒的研讨会。

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

理想的情况是,一本书没有顺序,读者必须找到自己的顺序。

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

到了收支相抵的时候,有人把钱挪走了。