There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  • -- C. S. Forester 佛瑞斯特

除了从头开始,从头到尾,没有别的写作方法。

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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

语言诗人只写语言本身。阿什伯里的诗人只写诗本身。在我看来,这似乎是一条死胡同。

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

不,仔细想想,我不认为治愈会结束,但如果你想,我可以编造一个结局。

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

对我来说,这似乎就是“小说”的定义:一个尚未找到简洁方式的故事。

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

我从一开始就知道你需要知道的一件事。也就是说,音乐产业是一个产业。

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

开始是工作中最重要的部分。