There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

  • -- Margaret Mahy 玛格丽特·梅喜

当然,也有一些时候,我自己的日常生活似乎在退缩,所以故事的生活可以接管我。这就是为什么作家经常需要空间和时间,这样他或她就可以放弃平凡的生活,与角色“生活”在一起。

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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

当人们开始写有这个想法,你必须把一切正确的第一次,每一句话都必须是完美的,每一段必须是完美的,每一章必须是完美的,但你所做的不是任何形式的公开展示,直到你准备好。

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

我讨厌把自己托付给任何事情。老实说,这可能是因为缺乏纪律。我可能是一个被宠坏了的孩子,每次都担心会随心所欲。

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

这对我来说是一个悖论,我唯一知道怎么做的就是演戏,但我在写作时放弃的第一件事是角色。

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

从我国历史开始,这个国家就饱受妥协之苦。正是通过妥协,人权才被放弃。