When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

  • -- John Phillips Marquand 约翰·菲利普斯·马昆德

当我写小说的时候,我面对的是双重生活。我活在现在的同时,我也活在过去,和我的角色在一起。正是这一点使一位小说家如此古怪,令人不快。

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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

不同的脚本需要不同的东西。我总是要花很长时间去了解这个角色,了解文字背后的逻辑。在事情开始步入正轨之前,在它们成为角色的一部分之前,我必须与剧本相处相当长的一段时间。

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

只是在现代,我们才开始赞美吸血鬼。