Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

  • -- Francoise Sagan 弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈

写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候,生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样,他就不会觉得那么武断。

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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

在歌剧中追踪人物是必要的。如果你要和不止一个或两个角色打交道,你很容易就会忘记其他人也有自己的生活,他们的生活融入了故事。

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

如果我们想避免侮辱,我们必须能够击退它;如果我们希望确保和平,这是我们日益繁荣的最有力工具之一,我们必须知道,我们随时准备着战争。

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

嗯,我不认为我曾经是媒体的一个巨大目标,我在一定程度上重视这一点,因为演员躲在雷达之下,这样他们就可以扮演角色,这是有一定价值的。

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

每当有人问人类“你想要暂时的经济利益还是长期的环境损失,你更喜欢哪一个?”

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

我担心人们会说我在重复我自己吗?确定。一个想法是把它写成小说出版,但最终我决定做我想做的事。

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

写出值得出版的东西,找到诚实的人出版它,让明智的人阅读它,这是成为作家的三大困难。

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

在文学领域,初学者的志向是学习文学语言;内行的奋斗就是摆脱它。

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

如果我重复一遍,我觉得我在浪费时间。