威廉·博伊德
精湛的歷史小說(shuō)
"A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him."
作家就是花多年耐心探索內(nèi)心第二個(gè)自我的人。
"The best way to forget something is to remember it."
忘記某事最好的方式就是記住它。
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
人生是一場(chǎng)海難，但我們別忘了在救生艇上歌唱。
"Memory is the diary we all carry about with us."
記憶是我們隨身攜帶的日記。
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
世界上充滿了顯而易見(jiàn)卻無(wú)人注意的事物。
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
寫作是唯一一個(gè)不賺錢也不會(huì)被人嘲笑的職業(yè)。
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
唯一讓生活成為可能的，是永久且難以忍受的不確定性——不知道接下來(lái)會(huì)發(fā)生什么。
"A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it."
小說(shuō)就是一篇有問(wèn)題的長(zhǎng)散文。
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
我們都有自己的時(shí)間機(jī)器。帶我們回去的叫回憶，帶我們前行的叫夢(mèng)想。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
過(guò)去永遠(yuǎn)是緊張的，未來(lái)才是完美的。
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