My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

我的成长经历绝对不是典型作家的成长经历。甚至可以说是相反的。

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

科幻小说作家,我很抱歉地说,真的什么都不知道。我们不能谈论科学,因为我们对科学的知识是有限的和非官方的,通常我们的小说是可怕的。

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

我想,不管出于什么原因,我都积极地欢迎被人贬低,这也许可以追溯到我的成长经历——一个人被指责为不值得被贬低。

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

我的父母给了我严格的教育,这有时使我遭受痛苦,但今天我感谢他们。

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

作者天生是一个梦想家——一个有意识的梦想家。