A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  • -- Madeleine L'Engle 马德莱娜·朗格朗

一本书来了,说:“给我写信。”我的工作就是尽我所能地为它服务,这永远不够好,但我所能做的就是倾听它,做它告诉我的,并与它合作。

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Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

作家很少写他们所想的东西。他们只是把别人认为他们在想的事情写下来。

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

如果你想让人们倾听,你必须有一个说话的平台,这就是你所做的卓越之处。

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

不听电视真的很难:它花了比父母更多的时间来抚养我们。

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

淡定是当一切都悬而未决的时候,保持冷静的能力。

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

这使得古典音乐发挥作用,即即兴创作的能力。

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

长期以来,我一直在写作,一直想当导演。