Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

任何作家只有在知道自己在做什么以及为什么要做时,才会感到幸福和善良。

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My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

我的职业生涯一直很奇怪。我的职业就像一个心脏监测器。我偶尔会参与一个好的项目,让事情继续下去。然后我做我所做的东西,我希望这些东西会很好,这样我就能谋生,并在我房子里那些小怪物的头上有一个屋顶。

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

因为,如果一个人有什么值得称赞的地方,满足于此是愚蠢的虚荣心;如果这是滥用——为什么一个人总能从一个该死的好心肠的朋友那里听到这些呢?

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

在这个世界上,没有任何理由,去表现快乐,去感受快乐,去获得快乐。然后你就可以去爱,做你想做的。

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

每一位伟大的作家,甚至是每一位优秀的作家,都是按照自己的规范来改造世界的。

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

如果我告诉别人我知道我在做什么,没有人会相信我,所以为什么还要假装呢?

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

如果你想过上幸福的生活,把它和目标联系在一起,而不是人和事。