In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

  • -- Donna Tartt 唐娜·塔特

为了让一部长篇小说在较长一段时间内吸引小说家,它必须处理你认为非常重要的问题,你正在努力解决的问题。

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Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

因为我们有那么多的“花瓶”和“花瓶”,花那么多时间来付房租,所有这一切都在阻止我们过于努力地思考或采取行动。我们的时间被偷走了。我们日常生活中的很多东西都被偷走了。

So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.

所以我就休息了一段时间。我本来打算做两三年,结果变成了五年。但当然,我会说这是我做过的最好的事情。现在我又回到了这个充满活力的话题。