If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

  • -- Richard Price 理查德·普莱斯

如果我能在五分钟内把故事从头到尾讲完,我就准备开始写了。在这五分钟里,它是一个常数。

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The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.

剧组人员知道,因为他们收到了其他人的来信,当我第二天出现在片场时,他们都用一种奇怪的眼神看着我。我告诉他们,比尔总是教导我,无论什么时候发生了这样糟糕的事情,最好的办法就是工作。

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

如果我不喜欢在屏幕上看到自己,我想当我开始看到的时候,我就会停下来。

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.

我知道有人在观察我的作品。 这就是我坚持阅读和写作的原因之一。

Don't leave yourself alone for two many days, sooner than you know your  gonna start slipping.

不要让自己一个人呆上两天,在你意识到自己要开始走下坡路之前。

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

钱是可以的,但是一旦你拥有了它,你就会发现它并不是一切。

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

当一个人以第一人称写小说时,他必须是那个人。