If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

  • -- Richard Yates 理查德·耶茨

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说,你永远也写不出来!

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I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

我希望大家都玩得开心,因为我玩得很开心。我可以告诉你。现在是时候靠边站了,让其他的年轻人进来赢球。希望他们也会这么做。

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

法官以法律为依据,而不是以舆论为依据,他们应该完全无视时代的压力。

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

如果一个主题或想法太接近表面,小说就会变成一个简单的描绘一个想法的小册子。

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

在一部小说中,我可以把我的自我淹没在一个角色的内心,让他的感知接管一切。