When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

当你从床头柜上拿起一本小说时,你同时放下了自己的生活,在这段时间里你变成了另一个人。

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It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

站在这一边是很奇怪的,因为当你开始创业的时候,你似乎已经开始了很长时间,你会敬仰那些已经取得成就的人。你想成为那样的人。

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

一旦一部小说开始,我知道它是可行的,我就不会担心情节或主题。这些东西几乎会自动出现,因为角色现在正在拉故事。

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

写小说的时候,作者应该创造活生生的人;人们不要字符。一个人物是一幅漫画。

At once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised.

这是有史以来最干净、最孤立的度过糟糕时光的方法。

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

摩城的政策是一次建立一个行为或他们的最爱。

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

不要站在天使的一边,这太卑鄙了。