I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

  • -- Rose Tremain 罗斯·特瑞美

我把写小说比作一场旅行,带着一些我将要到达的目的地的概念,但不是整个画面——随着旅程的进行,它会逐渐显现为一系列的启示。

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Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

把他们从画面中剔除,可以说,足球真正是什么,野蛮,足球的核心根源,它没有改变。这让足球变得真实。

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

我对任何对环境不好的车都不感兴趣,除了画册上的美感。

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

好的写作的秘诀是用一种新的方式说一件旧的事情或者用一种旧的方式说一件新的事情。

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more.

到了一定程度,你就会停止写作,更多地思考。