The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  • -- Jim Rohn 吉米隆

对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说,小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于,在小说中,作者可以真实地说出真相,而不会让自己蒙羞。

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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

写完一页后,海明威会让它浮在地上。他从不把书页弄皱——他相信如果你把它们弄皱,一年之内你就会发疯。

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

小说帮助我重新与日常生活中固有的真实、深刻的怪异联系起来,在我们与他人的交往中,在活着的过程中。

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

其余的,称为文学,是人类愚蠢的卷宗,供未来的教授参考。

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

我并不认为科幻小说是虚构的。我能想象火星上的殖民地和一切。

Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.

好的小说是去掉所有无聊的部分,而不是去掉所有的困难。

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

文学是一种需要拥有的力量,而不是一堆需要研究的对象。