The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

  • -- Ursula K. Le Guin 娥苏拉·勒瑰恩

艺术家处理无法用语言表达的东西。以小说为媒介的艺术家是用文字来表达的。小说家用语言表达了无法用语言表达的东西。

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Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

言语可以把一个人撕成碎片,也可以把它们重新组合在一起。我希望你好好利用你的语言,因为只有那些你故意用来伤害别人的话,才会让你比那些没有说出口的话更后悔。

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

你可以这样做:你坐在键盘前,一个字一个字地写下来,直到写好为止。就是那么简单,那么难。

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

毫无疑问,自然界中有些东西尚未被发现。如果一个艺术家发现了它们,他就为他的继任者开辟了道路。

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

写小说就是编织一系列谎言以达到更大的真理。

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

语言就像解开束身衣——你可以用它来进入这个伟大的空间。