I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

  • -- Richard Russo 理查德·罗素

我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为,学术小说已经够多了,而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的,他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。

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Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.

太多的投手,就是这样,一支球队有太多的十到十二个投手。我不明白他们怎么能找到足够的工作。四个先发投手和一个替补应该足够了。每隔三天投一次球,你就会发现他们控制得很好,手臂也很强壮。

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

一个人写的是玩笑话,另一个人读的是紧张和激情;一个人带着紧张和激情写的东西,另一个人却带着开玩笑的心情读。

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

说实话,我对生物学或历史没有学术上的耐心,但我总是喜欢这类大问题。

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

我用撒旦这个词,但我不知道我是否真的认为自己是撒旦的信徒。

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

人们会想,‘坐在沙发上四个小时,我爱我自己。“爱你自己,起床吧!”

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

我有学术背景。我不是被培养来推销自己的。

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

我是最早录制乡村音乐视频的人之一。

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

医学和写作是天生的伴侣。