I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  • -- Gabriel García Márquez 加布里埃尔·加克

我不知道是谁说小说家读别人的小说只是为了弄清楚他们是怎么写的。我相信这是真的。我们对暴露在书页表面的秘密并不满意:我们把书翻了个底朝天,寻找缝合线。

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Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

拥有一个人们认可的角色,可能是你得到报酬最多的一件事——但也是世界上几乎每个演员都不想要的一件事。因为,如果我想演一些超写实的角色,比如强盗什么的,没人会相信我。

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

这些逃兵是我们的祸根。在我最后放下笔之前,我还有许多话要对他们说,我要毫不犹豫地直呼他们的真名,这个名字将永远铭刻在世界各国的面前。

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

因此,改革家们,作为上帝手中的工具,把教会从奴役中解救出来,使其摆脱教士的束缚,并没有使它成为一群喧闹的群众。在这群群众中,每个人都是自己的法律,自由地信仰,自由地做自己喜欢做的事。

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

春天真正的预兆不是番红花或燕子返回卡皮斯特拉诺,而是蝙蝠击球的声音。

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

解剖一本书就像理解生活一样。你必须找到一种方式来诠释生活,否则你会发疯的。

I write books to find out about things.

我写书是为了了解事物。