If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

  • -- Caroline B. Cooney 卡罗琳·B·库尼

如果你写一个基于真实人物的故事,你会被真实人物和他的生活细节所困。它妨碍了你写自己的故事。

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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

对我来说不太好,感觉有点失衡的是,当你想把自己变成另一个人的时候——当你想成为另一个人的时候。

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

思想的一个问题是,不管多么有效,它们都是静态的、客观的,而人是活跃的、动态的。

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

写作就像结婚一样。除非对自己的运气感到惊讶,否则永远不要做出承诺。

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

音乐会必须被视为一个真正的活动,其目的是试图养活每一个人。

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

事实上,我是在和那些没有记录的人一起写作。

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

真实的东西越多,就越像神话。