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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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

能够吸收最多的事实,并坚持这样做,一代又一代,通过所有的意见和细节的变化,是一个理论,必须统治所有的观察。

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

这些措施可能不构成对和平的绝对保证,但我认为,它们是各国有史以来采取的最伟大的预防性措施。

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

好人或坏人,英雄或反英雄;对我来说无所谓,我演什么角色,只有角色才有魔力。

Reality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

现实和真实的人太微妙和复杂,任何人的打字机都打不了,即使是托尔斯泰的,即使是你的,甚至是我的。

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

品格是不可磨灭的印记,它决定了所有人及其所有工作的唯一真正价值。

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

当我写得好的时候,我感到快乐。当我长时间不写作时,我开始崩溃。