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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I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

我想做任何事。我知道这可能是不合理的期望,但这就是我想做的。

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

你可能认为重力会让它慢下来,但它只是膨胀得越来越快。

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

我没必要这么说。我必须把它写下来。这已经够痛苦的了。

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

我写它是为了让它从我身上消失。我写它不是为了记住它。

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

在你知道怎么玩游戏之前,你不能违反规则。

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

如果人们在战争中奴性地服从规则,他们就会失败。