In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

  • -- Neil Gaiman 尼尔·盖曼

从很多方面来说,获得第一本书的合同要难得多。总的来说,最难的事情可能是学会不相信别人,不相信宣传人员等等。

相关名言

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

出于某种原因,人们觉得我很有趣。很难定义一个想法为什么有趣。更难以定义一个人为什么会有趣。这是一个我根本无法定义的词。但不管我是否完全知道它是什么,我似乎就是它。

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

如果你把宣传人员和其他东西都拿走,让人们为自己说话,那么他们就必须对自己的话负责。

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

我的公关人员总是说,只要他们把你的名字念对或拼对,就没问题。

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

欢乐过度比任何悲伤都难以忍受。