You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

  • -- Wilbur Smith 威尔伯·史密斯

你知道那种感觉吗?当你期末考试结束时,你想,‘我再也不想做那样的事了’?当我读完一本小说时,我也有同样的感觉。每次我说“我想我现在可以退休了”,六个月后,我的想法又开始翻腾起来。我停不下来。

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I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

我是一个能在压力下很好工作的人。事实上,我在压力下工作得很好,有时我会拖延来制造这种压力。

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

我期待着从公众人物的身份退休,能够做我自己!

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

我为何需要接班计划?我非常警觉,充满活力。我没有退休的打算。

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

摄影之所以成为一项奇特的发明,是因为它的主要原料是光和时间。

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

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说,你永远也写不出来!

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

小说写作无疑是我所知道的最累人的工作。