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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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

小说家的写作并不像鸟儿歌唱那样,是受自然的推动。这是工作的一部分,应该有很多例行公事和一些木工水平的日常事务。

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

打动读者是小说家的工作。