A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  • -- Dana Spiotta 达娜·斯皮奥塔

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

如果你一个人写小说,你就坐着,编一个小故事。这是好,但这无关紧要。

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

在巨大的痛苦之后,一种正式的感觉来了。神经像坟墓一样隆重地坐着。

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

在伯格的小说中从来没有一个错误的音符。

I have no formal culinary training, right.

我没有接受过正式的烹饪培训。