I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

我喜欢用动物,因为它们有助于消除读者的怀疑。我们对牙医有一些想法。我们对犀牛牙医没有太多想法。

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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

在我生命的大部分时间里,我的脑海和嘴里都充斥着莎士比亚的世界、激情和思想,他给我的感觉就像一个朋友——一个刚刚走出房间去拿另一瓶酒的人。

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

人们对出版商有不好的评价,但我认为他们仍然有服务,我想看看他们是什么。如果它们最终没有任何用处,我就不用一直用它们了。

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

任何免受个人痛苦的人都必须感到自己被召唤去帮助减少他人的痛苦。我们每个人都必须分担世界上的苦难。

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

运用决策的力量让你有能力克服任何借口,在瞬间改变生活的任何部分。

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

基本上,小说就是人。你不能写关于思想的小说。

He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.

跌倒的人不能帮助跌倒的人。