I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

  • -- Fred Saberhagen 弗雷德·萨卜哈根

我立刻就成功了,因为我马上就卖出去了一些东西。我原以为会是小菜一碟,但事实并非如此。我的抽屉里——或者我确实有——装满了退稿单。

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If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

如果我能给这个世界带来快乐,如果我能让人们暂时停止思考他们的痛苦,或者让他们明天早上起来斥责他们的老板……那我就成功了。

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

我没有试图哭着离开奥兰多。这从来就不是我的本意,或者根本不是我做的。我知道每个人都这么想,因为当时的情况就是这样。

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

我认为我是一个很好的作家,但我没有什么可写的。我想去外面的世界,有一些冒险,然后写他们。

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

我认为运动员们对我的反应很好,因为我已经成功了。

I'm more afraid of admitting rejection then rejection itself.

我更害怕承认拒绝,而不是拒绝本身。