I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

我常常注意到,当我赋予小说中的人物一些珍贵的往事之后,它就会在我突然赋予它的那个人造的世界里枯萎。

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

小说就像一张蜘蛛网,也许有那么一点点附着,但仍然附着在生活的各个角落。这种依恋往往难以察觉。

No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.

彼得皈依后,没人再为他担心。你的调查人员可以被说服。

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

我有时间呼吸,有更多的时间做我自己,我更放松,更少戒备。

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。