When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

  • -- Steven Wright 史蒂文赖特

当我死后,我将把我的身体留给科幻小说。

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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

写作教会我的一件事是,小说有自己的生命。虚构的地方有时比我们卧室窗外的景色更真实。虚构的人有时会变得和我们所爱的人一样亲近。

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

由于长命百岁,我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑,我不得不改变自己的观点,甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的,但后来发现事实并非如此。

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

作家所能做的,小说家、诗人或随笔作家所能做的,就是让人们重新认识到自己的人性。

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

观察事物的本质。找出你的观点的根据,赞成和反对。