J•K Rowling

“I know that when I read books as a kid, the characters became part of my fantasy life.

J·K Rowling

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I mean this is a very very all-consuming project. It’s seven novel series, I have 127 characters. That’s a lot of characters to keep in play. It’s an increasingly complexplot, as I always planned it, Obviously it’s the focus of an enormous amount of my time and energy and that huge part of my life.

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But as I say, it’s 127 characters in this, it’s very long. I’m not eager to finish Harry. I don’t want to lose the momentum, so I’m not about to take time off from writing it in the sense that I don’t want to walk away from it and come back. It’s going to be part of the reason to finish the book. It’s been such a huge part of my life and I neither want to hasten towards it nor do I want to extend the series unnecessarily. And I still love the writing of it, but it was very pressured at one point and I was really pressurized putting on myself. Obviously I wanted to finish the book to my satisfaction and I also didn’t want to disappoint people by missing the deadline. We made the deadline but I did do that by putting in very, very long days and working in a , far more pressured way than I normally work.”

momentum：契机  

unnecessarily：不必要地  

pressurized：对……加压
deadline：最后限期

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“我知道我小时候读书时，故事里的角色就成了我的幻想生活的一部分。

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我想说，这是一个需要全身心投入的工作。这是包括七本小说的系列故事。故事中有127个人物角色。故事中有相当多的角色。而且情节也像我一直计划的那样越变越复杂。很显然，我的大量时间都花在这上面，那是我生活中的极大一部分。

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但正如我所说的，这个故事里有127个角色，故事非常长。我并不急着写完《哈利》。我不想失去动力，所以我并不想耗费时间去做其他事，也就是说，我不想放下它然后再重新开始写。这是我要写完这部小说的部分原因。它是我生命中如此重要的一部分，因此我既不想匆匆写完它，也不想做不必要的拖延。我仍然十分喜爱写这个故事，但有时压力很大，我也在给自己施压。当然我既想使自己满意，也不想错过最后期限使读者感到失望。我们定了最后期限，但我总是花很多很多时间来写，压力非常大，比我正常工作的压力大得多。”

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