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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If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

如果我同意为你那首优美的诗谱曲,这将把你的诗束缚好几年,因为我有一些必须遵守的协议和义务。

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

我在战争中学到的一条绝对规则是,不知道你不需要知道的任何事情,因为一旦你被抓住,他们会把它从你身上揪出来。

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said.

一个敢于写现代史的人,一定会因为他说过的和没说过的东西而受到攻击。

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

凡是有天文台和望远镜的地方,我们期望任何眼睛都能立刻看到新的世界。

I write because i don't know what i think until i read what i say.

我写作是因为我不知道我在想什么,直到我读到我所说的。

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

我遵守规则,我是一个高成就者。