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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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

雷对他的想法守口如瓶——为什么不呢,那些怪癖被扯掉的时候,尤其是在早期,这让你在告诉别人你在做什么的时候有点谨慎。这是可以理解的。

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

当你从床头柜上拿起一本小说时,你同时放下了自己的生活,在这段时间里你变成了另一个人。

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

我不太擅长退休。我试过一次,南希把我赶出了房子。

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

你可以把时间花在白日梦上,或者用其他方式来利用它。

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。

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

我不想退休。我还是想玩。