I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

  • -- Richard Russo 理查德·罗素

我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为,学术小说已经够多了,而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的,他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。

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I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

我想说的是美学命题,它来自于对一个世界的人类元素的学习,所以这些音符和节奏对你来说,除了它们在学术上的地位之外,还有其他的意义。

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

用英语写作是一个很大的挑战。我不想让其他词曲作者为我写歌。我想保留西班牙语歌曲的精神。我在英语里和在西班牙语里是一样的夏奇拉。

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

我的孩子们小的时候没有,因为我认为他们必须有一定的年龄。我希望他们很喜欢我,不要看到我在那种地方。

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

你可以在任何学术机构的任何走廊上提到我的名字,你会让人流口水。

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

第一眼看上去美极了;但是当它在房子里呆了三天的时候,谁会去看它呢?

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

写作是我唯一坚持做的事情,除了结婚。

It's another good win for us, and we can't get enough of them.

这是我们的又一场胜利,我们不能得到足够的他们。

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

如果你不写,什么会让你停止呼吸。