The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

  • -- Whitley Strieber 惠特利·斯特里伯

事实上,一切最终都归结于读者、作者和角色之间的关系。一个角色是否以一种普遍而重要的方式处理道德存在?如果是,那就是文学。

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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

我写的东西是写给那些愿意接受读者和作者之间的新关系的人的。

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

我不知道有哪位作家曾经设想过,在这个地球上,人类最终能够在没有食物的情况下生存。

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

一个作家可能会告诉我,他认为人类最终会变成鸵鸟。我不能完全反驳他。

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

我最大的恐惧是让读者失望,所以每本书都必须比前一本书好。