The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  • -- Iris Johansen 半月湾的男人

一个作家能得到的最大的赞美是,一个故事和一个角色能让读者着迷。我沉浸在故事写作中,我错过了很多睡眠时间来思考它和构思情节要点。

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

对全体民众来说,变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事,低声诉说隐藏的渴望,揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查,以免受到国家的惩罚。

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

如果对艺术家来说,他的艺术中没有什么神秘的东西,那么它就没有意义……对我来说,每一个艺术行为都是解开一个谜。

Every king was once a crying baby and every great building was once a map. It’s not important where you are today, but where you will reach tomorrow.

每一个国王都曾是一个哭泣的婴儿,每一座伟大的建筑都曾是一幅地图。你今天在哪里并不重要,重要的是你明天将到达哪里。

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

我一直都是一个角色演员,你知道,你总是会遇到一些坏人角色演员。

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

如果你只在灵感迸发时写作,你可能是一个相当不错的诗人,但你永远不会成为小说家。

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

我是那种不快乐的人之一,他们把无聊的东西激发到最伟大的艺术飞行中去。