Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

  • -- Joyce Carol Oates 乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨

小说的内容加起来,暗示着“逻辑一致性”,或者某种解释,肯定是二流小说;因为生命的真理是神秘的。

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

写作的矛盾在于,它既可以被看作是一种行为,也可以被看作是一种解释过程,一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此,它既肯定又否定自己的本性。

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

写作和绘画对我来说是一样的。