Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  • -- Gabriel García Márquez 加布里埃尔·加克

当乔纳斯回到家,告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天,因为他被鲸鱼吞了。

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I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

我对写作有一种特定的情感,它来自于我知道两件事:作为一个读者,我喜欢读什么;作为一个作家,我能做什么。我知道自己的极限。我知道有些事我做不到。

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

我的发明,(电影摄影机),可以被利用…但除此之外,它没有任何商业价值。

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

所有人在任何意义上都是自由平等的,或在任何时候都是自由平等的,这一学说是完全没有根据的。

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为,你不妨承认这一点。

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

写小说需要投入很多情感。

Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

没有发明,任何东西都是不协调的。