Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

  • -- Cory Doctorow 科利·多克托罗

对我来说,小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时,这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。

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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

在逆境中,在压迫下,语言开始失败,简单的语言开始失败。为了准确地表达事物,人类几乎被迫去寻找尽可能精确的词语,这是文学的先决条件。

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

成为作家的秘诀是你必须写作。仅仅考虑写作、研究文学或作为一名作家规划未来的生活是不够的。你真的必须把自己锁起来,一个人,然后开始工作。

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

我们被教导要以比我们更卑贱和可鄙的程度来看待我们自己种族的一部分,为了伟大和有用的目的,我们失去了大自然之手植入我们心中的人的尊严的观念。

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

一项技术进步的第一阶段是它将跌破一个关键价格。在跌破临界价格后,如果成功,它将倾向于突破临界质量,进入市场。

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

在我旅行的过程中,那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面,我的旅行对我非常有用。

Let yourself be silently drawn by the  strange pull of what you really love, it will not lead you astray.

让自己静静地被你真正爱的东西所吸引,它不会把你引入歧途。

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

作家从来没有假期。对于一个作家来说,生活要么是写作,要么是思考写作。

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

尝试结束,永远不要怀疑。没有什么比搜索更困难的了。

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

我并不是真的想结婚就假装结婚。