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've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

我试着减少亵渎,但在写这本书的时候,我减少了太多的亵渎,以至于我担心写不出什么来。也许我们将不得不把它简单地看作是一本亵渎神明的书,并希望下一本书将少一些亵渎神明,或者更神圣一些。

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

作为回报,社会奖励那些给予它想要的东西的人。这就是为什么人们赚了多少钱是一个粗略的衡量他们给了社会多少它想要的。

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

我宁愿生活在一个充满神秘的世界里,也不愿生活在一个小到我的大脑可以理解的世界里。

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

但我仍然认为,如果你很强大,你就能与任何东西战斗,这就是精神战胜物质的意义。

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

我对乐队的爱依然存在。它没有改变,也许这就是为什么这些天如此痛苦的原因。

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

无论你是谁,你都不会写这本书。我什么也不能告诉你。别再给我打电话了。永远。