Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  • -- Gabriel García Márquez 加布里埃尔·加克

当乔纳斯回到家,告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天,因为他被鲸鱼吞了。

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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

一个人学习如何利用自然的力量为自己的目的,通过完善科学和机器的发明和改进,他会生产更多。

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

写出值得出版的东西,找到诚实的人出版它,让明智的人阅读它,这是成为作家的三大困难。

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

谁知道心是虚构的,没有任何真实的东西,谁就知道他自己的心既不存在也不不存在。

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

电视就像室内管道的发明。它没有改变人们的习惯。只是把他们关在房子里。

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

基本上,小说就是人。你不能写关于思想的小说。

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

只有一代人的读者才能跨越一代人的作家。