If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

如果你写的是体裁小说,你就得遵守规则,而且你必须遵守规则,因为读者是这样期望的。

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The fact that biological, or atural rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

生物或自然规律可能有助于计算机生成的艺术作品的创作,这一事实很有趣,但即使是用这种方式创作的美妙艺术品,也与一个人不同,他或她所有的经历和情感都参与了艺术创作。

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

我所写的都是发生在我和我认识的人身上的事情,我对他们了解得越多,他们就越有可能被写出来。

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

重要的是什么都不要期待,把每一次经历,包括那些消极的经历,都当作是在人生道路上迈出的一步,然后继续前进。

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress.

如果每个人都遵守规则,什么也不会改变。没有变革就没有进步。

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

表现得像你希望进入终点区一样。

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

我没有写。我只是随便逛逛。