I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

  • -- Maria Semple 玛丽亚·塞姆普

我想,因为我试着让事情尽可能的真实,或者我试着从一个真实的地方开始,我几乎没有想象力去写一本不以我为背景的书。

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The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

我们来到这里之前看到的照片甚至没有触及这里的真实情况。我们可能正站在海滩上,周围一片狼藉,但仍然无法想象当水墙真正浮出水面时是什么样子。

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

我知道戏剧对我来说有一种特别的东西,一种超越常规的东西,一种我可以进入并超越的东西,一种我可以成为不同于我自己的东西的东西。

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

使用书籍最成功的方法是像某些人做领主一样为他们服务;学习他们的头衔,然后吹嘘他们的熟人。

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

散文的语言和电影的语言非常不同,所以电影必须成功地翻译书中的内容。