The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

一本书好的部分可能只是一个作家偶然听到的,也可能是他整个该死的生活的毁灭,而其中的一部分和另一部分一样好。

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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

我总是做最坏的打算。我准备出版这本书,卖出七本,还要继续在广告业工作,所以这本书受到如此多的读者的欢迎,这真是太棒了。

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

科幻小说作家,我很抱歉地说,真的什么都不知道。我们不能谈论科学,因为我们对科学的知识是有限的和非官方的,通常我们的小说是可怕的。

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

作为一名电视编剧,我的优势在于对电视完全没有兴趣。

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

只有在这个国家,我们才能了解一个人或一本书。