The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

  • -- David Thomas Jones 大卫·托马斯·琼斯

问题是,读者不想听到糟糕的时代。

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Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.

纳什维尔对我来说就像一个大小镇。那里有很多文化,有很多有趣的事情可以做,有很多有趣的人。同时,它给人的感觉非常小,非常紧密,非常紧密。每个人都觉得彼此认识。

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

我希望我所有的书都能激起读者的某种反应,让他们思考一些东西或感受一些东西,或两者兼而有之,让它们成为他们的一部分,融入他们自己的生活。

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

我也喜欢童话和民间故事是女性的领域,在当时被认为是一个较小的领域。

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

我最大的恐惧是让读者失望,所以每本书都必须比前一本书好。