Writing a novel you have to be quite aware that what you are writing is not all true. Such a character did not cross the road at such a time; this is not true.

  • -- Muriel Spark 穆丽尔·斯帕克

写小说的时候,你必须意识到你所写的并不都是真的。这样的人物不会在这样的时候过马路;这不是真的。

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At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from some where inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

有时,我感到自己和周围的世界有一种奇怪的超然感;我似乎从外面看这一切,从一些不可思议的遥远的地方,从时间、空间、压力和悲剧中看到这一切。

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

大多数时候我没有太多的乐趣。其余的时间我一点也不开心。