The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

  • -- Isabel Allende 伊莎贝尔·阿连德

事实上,人们认为当你卖了很多书,你不是一个严肃的作家,这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时,我有点生气。

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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

我想有时候我应该多做些狂欢,因为我做的不多,也许偶尔会很有趣。对我来说很难找到乐趣,我是一个严肃的思考者,一个探索者,而且从一开始就很有趣。

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

我不习惯哭。有点难。我一生都在战斗。这只是另一场战斗,我必须学会如何赢,就这样。我要保持微笑。

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

当你有一项伟大而艰巨的任务时,有些事情几乎是不可能的,如果你一次只做一点,每天都做一点,工作就会突然结束。

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

我唯一适合做的就是当一名作家,而这种想法完全建立在我的怀疑之上:我永远不适合真正的工作,写作不需要任何条件。

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

好的作家定义现实;坏的只是重述它。一个好的作家能把事实变成真理;一个糟糕的作家往往会适得其反。

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

这些人的恢复力是惊人的。我坚信,我们越早在这个领域开展运动,就越好。

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

有一种方法可以让年轻人接受他们即将死去这一不可避免的问题,而年纪稍大一点的人或许可以克服这个问题。

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

我把书拿到一张桌子前,打开它柔软的象牙色书页……在旱季掉进池塘里。

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

我研究严肃的话题,我喜欢好人赢,父母也在好人中间。

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

有些人会对我的决定感到高兴,有些人则不会……但我必须活下去。

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses.

大多数书都写得很好,几乎对读者的感官没有任何影响。

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

有几件事让我很生气。大部分事情都不顺心。

It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.

人们爱的不是我。这是棒球。

Rudeness can make me angry.

粗鲁会使我生气。