I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

当我离开牛津时,我真的没有能力成为一名作家。但后来我开始学习。我一直很欣赏这种工艺。我一直觉得那是工作。

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I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

我过去经常打破很多俱乐部。我可能和一般的青少年球员有点不同。我的头发确实长了很多,棕色的头发也多了很多。但是我的风度,你知道,真的,从我巡演的第二、第三年开始,变得更加平稳。

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

艺术家——音乐家、画家、作家、诗人,似乎总是对他们周围发生的事情有最准确的感知,而不是官方版本或大众对当代生活的感知。

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

他总是把人物的声音和体格描写得如此出色。就像人们说的,它们是卡通,漫画。他们的图腾。

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

我们能真正了解一个人吗?我们只是说我们经常发现自己在对方的公司,我们都不介意。