I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

  • -- Maria Semple 玛丽亚·塞姆普

我认为小说必须是关于你在特定的时间点所处的位置。我认为它真的需要代表你正在经历的一些特定的痛苦。这不仅仅是个故事。

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I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.

还有人对我说,‘哦,你们还在一起?“他们没有意识到莱帕德一直都在,因为人们根本听不到我们说话。

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

我一直想成为大人物,但现在我意识到我应该更具体一些。

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

自尊和自卑有特定的气味;它们可以闻到。

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

我把我该做的事情列了个清单。