I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

我有一些传统科幻小说的想法,但我从来没有卖出去。我是一个著名的幻想作家,我的经纪人和编辑都不愿意冒险让我的品牌改换风格。

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My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

我妈妈给我买了一套全新的衣服准备去上大学。我们很穷,但她想让我拥有它。那是一套粉蓝色的西装,下摆是紧身裤。我想这给我留下了深刻的印象。

I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment.

我不知道我是不是有点操之过急,但是有可能在将来我们可以利用我们目前无法得到的信息。

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

我们为自己创造了一个品牌,所以现在人们不会对我们的所作所为感到愤怒,因为那样他们就只是在塑造自己。

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

我没有在街上游行,没有跳到队伍前面,没有牵着手……那不是我。

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

对我来说,幻想的天赋比我吸收积极知识的天赋更重要。

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

有很多糟糕的编辑试图把自己的观点强加在一本书上。

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

幻想很难是对现实的逃避。这是一种理解的方式。

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

大多数作家都喜欢他们的编辑,我也不例外。