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

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

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。

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

如果人们诚实而勇敢地面对生活,他们就会在经历中成长。性格就是这样形成的。

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

水门事件是一桩极其复杂的丑闻,涉及的人物形形色色,就像托尔斯泰的小说一样。

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

写作是一项艰苦的工作。但是如果你想成为一名作家,你就会成为一名作家。没有什么能阻止你。

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

如果一个主题或想法太接近表面,小说就会变成一个简单的描绘一个想法的小册子。

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

我内心的某个部分从一开始就知道,我想要的不是现实,而是神话。

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

我不是疯了。我演过很多疯狂的角色,但我是个演员。

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

作家最大的罪恶就是无聊。

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

作家的责任是继续写作。