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.

  • -- George Saintsbury 圣茨伯里

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。

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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.

当我还是个孩子的时候,嘉年华会来到购物中心,我会去和所有负责游乐设施的人交谈。我喜欢这种生活方式,以游牧的方式从一个城镇搬到另一个城镇。

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

我宁愿让小说自己说话,我不想写那些告诉人们如何感受的小说,我也不想在小说中做出评判。

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

鉴于外部现实是虚构的,作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构,因为小说已经存在了。

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

风格简洁,思维精确,生活果断。