The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

  • -- Julie Courtney Sullivan 朱莉·考特尼·沙利文

写小说最难的部分是找到很长的时间来写作:对我来说,这意味着大部分时间都要在周六和周日写作。但我总是在想我的角色,在偷来的瞬间写下我的想法,希望周末到来时我能弄懂它们。

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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

但即使是金子也不是一切:只有一个狂热者,一个相当愚蠢的狂热者,才会说这种小说风格总结并耗尽了小说所能给予和做的一切美好。

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

这很难,有时也很可怕。这仍然让我母亲感到惊讶。有一年我回家过圣诞节,门前的草坪上到处都是歌迷,希望能见到我。

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

关于软死亡或容易死亡的小说是大多数不被认为是可耻或有失身份的疾病神话的一部分。

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

试图了解自己的时间,并试图分析推动时间的力量,这是很自然的。

Making up a whole story in  your head. Hoping one day it will happen.

在脑海中编造一个故事。希望有一天它会发生。

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

永远不要相信一个总是咧嘴笑的物种。这是有原因的。