As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

  • -- Richard Helms 理查德·赫尔姆斯

我刚写完第一本书,就写了第二本书,希望今年能卖出去,而我也差不多完成了这个系列的第三本书。另外两项计划已经拟定。我要在这干很长时间。

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Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

我每次上班都穿夹克打领带,因为我天生就很懒,我的书要花很长时间才能完成,我的出版商也不烦我,所以很容易让自己误以为自己比实际工作更努力。

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

如果一群猴子在打字机上乱敲乱打,它们可能会写出大英博物馆里所有的书。

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

重新振作起来的时间是崩溃的十倍。

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

书对愚蠢的人有用,就像镜子对盲人有用一样。

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

你给我看一个资本家,我给你看一个吸血鬼。

An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.

机会是等待发生的奇迹。