What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

  • -- Richard Russo 理查德·罗素

当父母是什么感觉?当个孩子是什么感觉?这就是故事的作用。他们把你带到那里。他们提供了戏剧性的解释,这总是不同于解释性的解释。

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And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

在那段时间里,我失去了父亲,有了自己的孩子。就像,好吧,我现在明白了。我知道做父亲的意义。你对父母的看法也不一样。

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

离婚不是孩子的错。不要对孩子说任何关于你前任的坏话,因为你只是在伤害孩子。

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

我试着挑选我觉得有趣和复杂的角色,我觉得我可以把自己的一些东西。

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

我们觉得肥胖是不可接受的,因为这与一个人的真实身份无关。

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

新父母,即使你不是第一次为人父母,真的知道该怎么做吗?

The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage.

可怜的孩子觉得自己像一只被关在闪闪发光的笼子里的小鸟。