I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  • -- Caleb Carr 卡勒伯·卡尔

当我还是个孩子的时候,我最想做的就是成为一名小说家。如果你告诉我长大后要当艺术家或小说家,我会当面笑话你。

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One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

旅行是为了再次学习如何像孩子一样对生活感到惊奇。诗人和艺术家是有福的,因为他们知道如何保持自己的好奇心。

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

如果他把我挤到柏油路边上,我就没事了。但当他把我完全赶出跑道时,我就失去了理智。

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

我的祖父不是一个音乐家,但他是一个艺术家——一个画家,一个装饰画家。

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

我并不真的认为自己是小说家,那只是纯属偶然。

The bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

自行车当然应该永远是小说家和诗人的交通工具。

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

我仍然喜欢听那些和我一起长大的人说话。