Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  • -- Umberto Eco 乌姆贝托生态

每次我写小说的时候,我都至少有两年的时间确信这是最后一部,因为小说就像一个孩子。它在出生后两年。你必须照顾好它。它开始走路,然后说话。

相关名言

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

出生是一扇窗户的突然打开,透过它你可以看到一个惊人的前景。发生了什么事?一个奇迹。你没有拿任何东西来交换一切的可能性。

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

在一个场景中,筏子告诉我如何和他一起走:我们会以一种正常的长镜头出发,大约在我们在一起拍特写的时候,我会弯曲膝盖,这样我就会矮一些。

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

神话不能像在他们古老的土地上那样被翻译。我们只能在自己的时间里找到自己的意义。

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

出生和死亡;我们都在这两个未知数之间徘徊。