childhood

“When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents”

几年前，当我得知作家要想成功似乎必须拥有极其不幸的童年时，我开始思考如何编造一些父母对我做过的可怕事情。

“And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood.”

她确实出类拔萃，但我认为，从整个儿童群体来看，她并非独一无二。

“I spent a very happy childhood there, and I was just an ordinary boy.”

我在那里度过了非常快乐的童年，那时我只是个普通男孩。