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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I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

我小时候很笨手笨脚的。我是一个试图融入一个圆圈的正方形,但它从来没有为我工作过。我越努力,摔得越重。由于某种原因,我成为了一个真正的目标,我被殴打,被辱骂。

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

几乎你看到的每一部喜剧都是关于人们做出所有错误的选择,使所有错误的判断成为可能。好的喜剧就是在这种规模下运作的。因为它在心理上非常真实。

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

我发现我在重复自己的话。当你发现你有自己的风格时,这就是结束的开始。

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

如果你不冒犯别人,我看不出你怎么能写出有价值的东西来。

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

和同一个人共度余生听起来很单调。

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

谦虚的人通常是令人钦佩的,如果人们听说过他们的话。