A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
回忆录
Memoirs
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
回忆录是历史的阶梯。
Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
回忆录是一种著名的小说形式。
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
人们写回忆录是因为他们缺乏想象力。
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
也许我会写一本回忆录，也许我会写一些散文，也许我会写一个神秘的故事。
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
在我成为作家之前，我绝对是一个读者，当我读回忆录时，我真的希望它是真实的。
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
当我写小说时，我有了更多的自由，但我的回忆录对我的读者产生了更大的影响。不知何故，“信息”，即使我甚至不知道有一个，以这种形式更好地传达。
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
读过这些回忆录的人会发现，在我的眼前，我从来没有一个固定的目标，我的系统，如果可以称为一个系统的话，就是随波逐流，随波逐流。