The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

作者自己是对自己作品的最佳评判者;没有人对这个问题进行过如此深刻的思考;没有人对这一事件如此真诚地感兴趣。

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It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter, don't worry about it!' I don't think the workshop is set up so well to do that for novels.

买小说可能很难,因为作为作者,你可能会有任何问题或疑虑,比如,“这是下一章,别担心!”他说,我认为这个工作室的设置不适合写小说。

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

我们拥有的技能是真正的魔法技能,而不是表演技能。我们必须把它们分开。但是真正使这些把戏奏效的技巧,我们不再使用了。

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

我现在正在学习如何区分我什么时候在演戏,什么时候不演戏——舞台下和舞台上都一样。