I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  • -- Irvine Welsh 威尔士

我倾向于读更多的非小说类书籍,真的,因为当我写作的时候,我不喜欢读其他的小说。

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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

写作教会我的一件事是,小说有自己的生命。虚构的地方有时比我们卧室窗外的景色更真实。虚构的人有时会变得和我们所爱的人一样亲近。

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

一个人要想成为伟大的好人,就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

我觉得科幻小说有时会有不好的名声,因为人们做一些东西只是为了把外星人扔进去,或者只是为了让它看起来很奇怪,而它并没有真正的故事。

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

我经常阅读英文译本,也经常和我的翻译交谈,比如关于名字的问题。我总是要批准它。

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

在我成为作家之前,我绝对是一个读者,当我读回忆录时,我真的希望它是真实的。

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

写日记是一次深入内心的旅行。