There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

有些事件是如此伟大,以至于如果一个作家参与其中,他的义务就是真实地写出来,而不是假设用发明来改变它们。

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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

我想做我自己,做我生来要做的——不是要有一个“职业”,而是要成为一个直截了当、明显无误的动物,一个作家。

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

任何写作的人都知道,不管你的项目是什么,最终你的大部分时间都是一个人呆在一个房间里,旁边放着钢琴或吉他。

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

亨利三世的事件发生了,很明显,自由被剥夺了。

And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.

所有这些事件都是相互关联的。但这并非偶然:这纯粹是因果关系。

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

我不是那种参与别人城堡的人。