Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story."

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

特别是如果是野生动物,我发现读者们很感兴趣。如果你的读者立刻对你感兴趣,你就已经赢得了讲故事的一半战斗。”

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Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

在我自己出了事故9年后,我发现试图回到过去做的那些事情根本不合适。一切似乎都土崩瓦解了。我不知道为什么,但我想是因为我是新来的。

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

事实上,我发现在没有太多事情发生的场景中,比如在餐馆里喝奶昔,我很难演戏。这比你有事情要做的剧情片要难得多。

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

风把雨吹走了,把天空吹走了,把所有的叶子都吹走了,树也立起来了。我想,我对秋天也了解得太久了。

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

在每一场战斗中,都会有双方都认为自己被打败的时候,然后谁继续进攻谁就赢了。

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

如果文明之战归结为懦夫和野蛮人的对决,野蛮人会赢。

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

时间就像马戏团,总是收拾东西走人。