If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  • -- Jane Austen 简·奥斯汀

如果一本书写得好,我总是觉得它太短了。

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You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

你不可能完全控制这项运动——老虎伍兹就快了。这是对你自己和大自然的考验。我发现高尔夫球是这个故事的一个特别好的比喻。

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

现在我年纪大了,我的身体很难在锻炼后恢复,所以我们必须保持锻炼时间短,这意味着锻炼非常困难,而且强度很大。它糟透了。

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

但如果你能找到那个地方——我想那就像跑步一样——我曾经是一名游泳运动员,游了几圈,你就必须在那里做你正在做的事情。

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

文学是一种艺术,它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西,用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

写作的过程是无限的。即使它每天晚上都被打断,它也是一个单一的符号。

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

许多好的谚语可以在圣经中找到,但是仅仅阅读它们并不会使一个人虔诚。

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

写这本书本身就是一个隐藏和揭示的过程。

My fault now is making my plays too short.

现在我的错是我的剧本太短了。