If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

如果一个主题或想法太接近表面,小说就会变成一个简单的描绘一个想法的小册子。

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Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

爱不是一种想法,不是一种感觉,不是一种感觉,不是一种情绪,不是一种激情,甚至不是一种情绪。它正在变成和不变成……终极虚无!完全融为一体!

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

我们不喜欢这个故事与读者分享它的情感。但读者自己的生活“外”的故事改变了故事。

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

在一部小说中,我可以把我的自我淹没在一个角色的内心,让他的感知接管一切。

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

只有在小说中,所有的东西都得到充分的发挥。