Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

  • -- Theodore Sturgeon 西奥多·斯特金

基本上,小说就是人。你不能写关于思想的小说。

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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

大多数高管、许多科学家以及几乎所有商学院毕业生都认为,如果你分析数据,这将给你带来新的想法。不幸的是,这种想法是完全错误的。头脑只能看到它准备看到的东西。

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。

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

一个人不是因为全神贯注于思考而无所事事。有看得见的劳动,也有看不见的劳动。

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

我在写小说,但没有写完。