There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  • -- C. S. Forester 佛瑞斯特

除了从头开始,从头到尾,没有别的写作方法。

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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

我不一定要从书的开头开始。我只是从故事中我想象中最生动的部分开始,然后从那里开始前进和后退。

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

正如我在文章结尾所写的,如果我们退后一步,面对汹涌的洪流,那么我们已经迈出了第一步,去想象我们可能想要做些什么。

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

起初,你必须服从自然的影响。在开始走钢索之前,你必须能够稳稳地走在地面上。

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

当你从床头柜上拿起一本小说时,你同时放下了自己的生活,在这段时间里你变成了另一个人。

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

我心里有本爱情小说,但我雇了三个水手用钢管把它打出来。

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

我们已经非常接近尾声,但是我们没有也不会失去我们的好心情。