With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  • -- Gay Talese 盖伊·塔利斯

所有的场景设置,对话,地点和时间以及你的角色移动的时间和地点。我想和角色一起前进,和他们一起前进,描述他们所生活的世界。

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Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

小说中的对话应该保留到高潮的时刻,并把它看作是一种浪花,叙事的巨浪在浪花中折向岸边的观察者。

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

我的理论是,比起男性角色和男性作者,女性作者创造的女性角色更容易出现可爱度问题。

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

对我来说最容易的就是对话。有时候当我的角色和我说话的时候,我不得不放慢他们的语速,这样我就不仅仅是在听写了。

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

孩子们经常问我角色是真实的还是虚构的,我总是告诉他们,‘我希望他们是真实的,但我是虚构的。’

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

归位的意义在于根植于一个地方和时间,而音乐就是其中的一部分。

People don't have fun making music all the time.

人们并不总是乐在其中。