All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

  • -- Steven Saylor 史蒂文·赛勒

所有的写作都是一种自我探索的行为。甚至购物清单也能反映出你的一些情况;一本小说又能说明什么呢?

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I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

我喜欢购物。但我是一个社交购物者。我喜欢和朋友们出去玩的时候这样做。有些人讨厌购物,因为他们把购物看成是你必须计划的事情,比如购物清单。但是如果我出去了,路过一家商店,我就会进去。

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

我列出的基本工具部分回答了关于发生了什么变化的问题:在过去几年里,大量程序员开始依赖复杂的工具来将代码与系统工具进行接口。

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

我已经学会了让自己看起来像是在听一长串令人困惑的卡通片和漫画书情节,而实际上我是在酣睡,或者是在脑海里列购物清单。

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

这些参数使我没有得到很多工作。我相信大多数导演听到我列出的“不要做”清单后都会说“算了吧”。