对那些即将或初当作者的人，我总是对他们说这句听来的话：“不要指望你的书会改变你的命运。”

When addressing would-be, first-time authors, I often repeat something I heard somewhere: "Don't expect your book to change your life."

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我对自己的命运几乎都不感兴趣，当然也不会对我的作品感兴趣了。翻译？你的意思是什么呢？

I'm hardly interested in my own fate, and certainly not in that of my books. Translations? What do you mean?

youdao

汤姆：嗯！你知道，命运、精神伴侣，还有真爱，跟胡说八道的童话故事。你说得对，我当初应该听你的。

Tom: Uh, you know, destiny, and soul mates, and true love, and all that childhood fairy tale nonsense. You were right. -i should have listened to you.

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