The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

  • -- Tom Clancy 汤姆·克兰西

真实与虚构的区别在于,虚构必须有意义。

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To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

坦白地说,如果我可以更瘦而不给我的生活带来很多痛苦和焦虑,我就会变瘦。但今天的现实是,我的生活比我的体重更重要——感谢上帝。

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

我喜欢为电影写作。一个人在房间里写小说很好,和一群人一起写电影也很好。

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限,但又不愿屈尊于读者,让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

一个作家的天才之处,不仅在于他的创作灵感,还在于他的选择。

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

面对现实的本来面目,而不是你想要的样子。

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

作家为什么写作?因为它不在那里。