My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

我的下一本书——每一本书我都在写——在我的脑海中翩翩起舞,每一个情节都让我感到兴奋。如果没有,我为什么要写呢?

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I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book.

我看到人们冒着生命危险,长途跋涉,环游半个地球,建立友谊,甚至撒谎、欺骗和偷窃,所有这些都是为了一本书。

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

有些人看待事物的方式,并问为什么……我梦想着从未有过的事情,问为什么不呢?

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

小说是迄今为止人类表达的最高形式。为什么?因为它无法做到绝对。

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

身体要强壮,心灵要纯洁,理想要远大。

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

如果他有想法,那一定是有原因的。

For each book, the time is also broken up.

对于每一本书,时间也是被分割的。