The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

  • -- Whitley Strieber 惠特利·斯特里伯

事实上,一切最终都归结于读者、作者和角色之间的关系。一个角色是否以一种普遍而重要的方式处理道德存在?如果是,那就是文学。

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I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

我希望我所有的书都能激起读者的某种反应,让他们思考一些东西或感受一些东西,或两者兼而有之,让它们成为他们的一部分,融入他们自己的生活。

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

如果“每件事的发生都是有原因的”,那么每一件坏事最终都是上帝做的。

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

什么读者希望被告知罢工的态度?