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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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In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

在生活中，当事情发生时，你的本能是关闭你的心扉。敞开你的心扉，别人就会进来。

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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

我仍然偶尔会写短篇小说，偶尔也会看小说，但这并不是我想做的。

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It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

想要靠近水是人类的本能。

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