In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

在剧院里,角色们必须切断作家的脐带,用自己的声音说话。

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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

事实上,人们认为当你卖了很多书,你不是一个严肃的作家,这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时,我有点生气。

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

我相信,在一个大城市,甚至在一个小城市或村庄,一个伟大的剧院是一个内在的和可能的文化的外在和可见的标志。

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

公司是社会组织,是男男女女实现或未能实现有目的和富有成效的生活的舞台。

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

那种认为不正常的事情应该保密的想法,对我来说真的很令人反感。

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

我给你们这些作家付了一大笔钱,为了什么?你所要做的就是换词。

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

就我所知,婚姻的规则是,你谈论得越少越好。