When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

  • -- Carl Hiaasen 卡尔·希尔森

当我在写自己的小说时,我尽量多读些非小说类的作品,尽管有时我也会崩溃一下,看看别的东西。

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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

当你写小说的时候,你可以创造出更多的东西,但也可以把与你相关的情感打包在一起。而对于非小说类作品,你必须尽可能真实,但也希望能带来……与作品的情感关联。

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

一旦一部小说开始,我知道它是可行的,我就不会担心情节或主题。这些东西几乎会自动出现,因为角色现在正在拉故事。

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

旧金山再也不能成为一个被市中心和社区分割的城市,当工人们晚上回家时,市中心就会变成一座鬼城

Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel.

生活不分流派。这是一部恐怖、浪漫、悲剧、滑稽、科幻的牛仔侦探小说。

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

我有一些问题,如果你判我额外的时间,我要把它们加起来。

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

当你处理非虚构作品时,你处理的是人类角色。