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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

一个优秀的短篇小说作家有一种本能，就是在足够的背景下勾勒出一个特定的故事。

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

我认为小说在总体上不太擅长支持或反对事物——一个短篇小说所能提出的修辞论点，只有通过增加特定的细节才能实现，而这些细节的特殊性使得故事得出的任何结论在更广泛的应用中都是无效的。

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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

模仿的本能产生了演员;通过模仿获得快乐的欲望造就了剧作家;为了给这种乐趣提供足够的人物塑造和令人难忘的对话，产生了戏剧文学。

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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

告诉我们要服从本能就像告诉我们要服从人一样。人们会说不同的话，直觉也是如此。我们的本能处于战争状态…每一种本能，如果你听从它，都会声称以牺牲其他本能为代价而得到满足。

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I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

我浪费了许多年的时间来写作，然后非常自豪地说:“现在……我的小说!很快就会变成一个短篇故事，然后变成一段。

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