My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

  • -- Anthony Horowitz 安东尼·赫洛维兹

我最大的恐惧是让读者失望,所以每本书都必须比前一本书好。

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There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

有好几次,因为给朋友发了一份邮件,我又重读了一遍,或者至少是草草翻阅了一遍,而通常发生的情况是,我注意到一堆又一堆笨拙的短语,真希望我能重写一遍。

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

你必须对它们有所了解,它们是一个自己的世界,大多数人发现它们令人失望,因为最好的短篇小说不像小说那样构造。

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

这本书是一部发生在读者心中的电影。这就是为什么我们去看电影时说,哦,书更好看。

It's disappointing because we were so close, and we all know how tough it is to get that close.

这很令人失望,因为我们离得太近了,我们都知道离得那么近有多难。