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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I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

我把写小说比作一场旅行,带着一些我将要到达的目的地的概念,但不是整个画面——随着旅程的进行,它会逐渐显现为一系列的启示。

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

我只是不想做一些让我烦透了的事情。否则,我会假装膝盖受伤然后离开。

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

虚荣的篝火:这本书的教训是,永远不要开始相信你自己的媒体。

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.

帕克斯说,他有罪,这就是故事的结局。

Start living for something worth dying for.

开始为值得为之牺牲的东西而活。

That's what my life is, writing songs.

这就是我的生活,写歌。