As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

  • -- Iain Banks 伊恩·班克斯

作为一名作家,你可以玩,你可以改变时间,你可以想出聪明的台词和你希望自己能想到的聪明的反击。

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I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

我断断续续地在网络和有线电视公司工作了好几年,你只需要知道你的参数是什么。很多时候,我认为我的团队所做的最好的工作就是处理一些特定的界限。

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

这是一件有趣的事情——当我为工作疯狂时,和孩子们在一起能让我放松。然而,在和他们一起度过一个漫长的周末之后,我真正需要放松的是一点工作和远离他们的时间!

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

基本上,他从不去工作,也没有工作。我当然认为他有。我以为他是在打电话做生意,而不是向别人借钱。

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

一个时代的激烈争论在另一个时代看来是毫无结果的,因为知识既能改变我们所寻求的,也能改变我们所发现的。

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

女人在事业上精明,在爱情上愚蠢。他们不会在区外约会,更不用说在城外了。他们是城市里的势利小人。

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

我一直认为,从道德上讲,杀害那些冒着生命危险去获取的故事,而不是报道它们,是不可接受的。

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

爱不是当它改变时才改变的爱。

I was never into smart college boy music.

我从来不喜欢聪明的大学生音乐。