For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

  • -- Nicholson Baker 尼科尔森·贝克

对我来说,作为一个初出茅庐的小说家,所有其他在世的作家组成了一个对照组,对他们来说,世界就是安慰剂。

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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

所有的小说都是关于犯罪的。你很难找到没有犯罪元素的小说。我不认为自己是犯罪小说家,但我的书中也有犯罪。如果你想反映真实世界,这就是讲故事的本质。

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

不要玩弄悖论。你为了烧灼别人而使用的那种腐蚀性物质,可能会烧灼到你自己的手指,使它们在质量上死去。