I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

  • -- Richard Russo 理查德·罗素

我必须有一个值得关心的角色。我一般不会开始写一些关于我不太同情的人的书,因为我只会和他们在一起太久。

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Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

尤其是当你扮演一个角色这么多年,这个角色最终会反映出你是谁,我想从那时起我已经改变了很多,但这也代表了我十几岁时的很多样子。

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

凉风吹在我脸上,我突然觉得自己好像摆脱了呆滞。在我面前有一条长长的灰色的线,中间有一个黑色的标记。鸟儿在唱歌。这是春天。

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

只要你面带微笑,眼睛炯炯有神,肩膀挺直,就没有人会注意到你的屁股、腰和脚。

As the character is, such is the speech.

人物怎样,言语也怎样。