Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  • -- Jessamyn West 杰萨姆·韦斯特

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。

A rock reveals itself to be sacred because its very existence is a hierophany: incompressible, invulnerable, it is that which man is not.

岩石显示出它自己是神圣的,因为它的存在本身就是一个导师:不可压缩的,坚不可摧的,这是人所不具备的。

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

一个人,不管是绅士还是女士,如果对一本好的小说不感兴趣,那他一定是愚蠢得令人无法忍受。

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

你不能把艺术放在一个角落里,希望它有生命力、现实性和实质。

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

我认为我的书非常直观,这是一个显而易见的结果。

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

我一直喜欢现实中更加真实的角色。

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

徒步旅行的人会看到世界的本来面目。

A public is a necessary fiction.

公众是必要的虚构。