If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

如果我有一个预先设定好的情节,我为什么要经历写小说的痛苦呢?小说至少对我来说是一种探索和发现。

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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

我不是在写音乐。艾德会写一段音乐。我会听一听,想出一个旋律,然后我们会安排它。我们把它放在一起,然后我给我的旋律写歌词。

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

我开始滑冰,我有点喜欢,因为我可以绕着那些不愿让我打棒球的人转。

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

坦克有两种形式:危险的、致命的和“解放”的。

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.

作家的目的是防止文明自我毁灭。