I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

  • -- Toni Morrison 托尼·莫里森

我写了我的第一部小说,因为我想读它。

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You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

你知道那种感觉吗?当你期末考试结束时,你想,‘我再也不想做那样的事了’?当我读完一本小说时,我也有同样的感觉。每次我说“我想我现在可以退休了”,六个月后,我的想法又开始翻腾起来。我停不下来。

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

当我写这首歌的时候,我想到了孟买附近的大海。我们住在海边的一家旅馆里,渔民们早上五点就来了,他们都在唱着歌。我们去了海滩,我们被一只疯狗追赶——大得像驴子。

I wrote the worst novel ever.

我写了有史以来最糟糕的小说。