I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

  • -- Wole Soyinka 黄豆

我并不真的认为自己是小说家,那只是纯属偶然。

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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

我很会讲故事;我对人很有同情心。这对小说家来说非常有用。许多小说家都是势利小人。他们只是些卑鄙的人。我不是一个非常熟练的造型师,我也不想成为。我想让很多人读我的故事,然后说,‘那太酷了。’

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

但是当我发脾气时,我发现很难原谅自己。我觉得我失败了。我可以在危机中保持冷静,面对死亡或伤害严重的事情。我不会歇斯底里,这可能是我的受虐狂。

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

永久退休并不难。我当时就知道这是对的。我不再有能力达到我给自己设定的标准,而且前途无量。

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质,可能会烧灼到你自己的手指,使它们在质量上死去。

Love is more like an accident than a plan. It's more of a question than an answer.

爱情与其说是计划不如说是意外。这与其说是一个答案,不如说是一个问题。

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

一段关系是上帝和意外的安排。