I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

  • -- Francis Ford Coppola 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉

我有一个哥哥对文学很感兴趣,所以我很早就接触了文学和戏剧。我父亲有时从事音乐喜剧工作。

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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

文学史上最著名的,也是最难理解的事实之一是,至少在西欧文学中,散文式小说很晚才出现,而在两种伟大的古典语言中,我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

当我开始写作的时候,我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中,这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

我们当代音乐文化的一个非常重要的方面——有些人可能会说极其重要的方面——是它在历史和地理意义上的扩展,在过去是未知的。

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.

我倾向于从你所说的个人生活的小世界开始。但我很感兴趣的是这个小而亲密的世界是如何与一个更大的世界联系起来的。

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

其余的,称为文学,是人类愚蠢的卷宗,供未来的教授参考。

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

我们想,如果你能把流行音乐重新带入音乐剧,那就太好了。