I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

  • -- Richard Russo 理查德·罗素

我必须有一个值得关心的角色。我一般不会开始写一些关于我不太同情的人的书,因为我只会和他们在一起太久。

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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

人们非常不善于记住长长的目标清单。当我试图让我的高绩效教练客户保持在正轨上时,我在专业水平上学会了这一点;他们的待办事项和目标清单越长,他们就越不知所措,越偏离轨道。清晰伴随着简单。

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

不要让你独特的性格和价值观,你知道而别人不知道的秘密,真相——不要让这些被咀嚼的自满吞噬。

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

服装是你在角色开口之前对他们的第一印象——它确实能确定他们是谁。

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

没有好电影是太长,也没有坏电影是足够短。