A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

  • -- Lorrie Moore 洛丽·摩尔

短篇小说是爱情故事,小说是婚姻。短篇小说是照片;小说是一部电影。

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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

希望开始于黑暗,固执的希望,如果你只是出现,并尝试做正确的事情,黎明就会到来。你等待,观察和工作:你不会放弃。

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

如果你只在灵感迸发时写作,你可能是一个相当不错的诗人,但你永远不会成为小说家。