I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  • -- James Patterson 詹姆斯·帕特森

我认为我们应该少花时间去担心孩子们读了多少书,多花时间给他们介绍一些高质量的书,这些书能让他们享受阅读的乐趣,让他们成为终生的读者。

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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

作为一名小说读者,我最看重的是角色的发展。如果一个作家能够创造出那种让我感觉完全真实的人物,那种我在一周后走过杂货店过道时为之担忧的人物,那对我来说就已经接近完美了。

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

当你是一个演员或演员在这个行业,通常自然的进展是导演,但很多时候,我们没有机会得到它。我自己,我真的很想投入其中。我想成为一个最终不用面对镜头的人。

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

我们当代的很多文化实际上都充斥着对限制和时间流逝的怨恨,对我们不能做的事情的愤怒,对变老的恐惧甚至厌恶。

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

对我来说,除了我自己的血缘关系之外,还有其他读者,这仍然是难以置信的——这是一种疯狂、狂野的天赋。

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.

再多的愧疚也改变不了过去,再多的担忧也改变不了未来。

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

不要害怕犯错,你的读者可能会喜欢。