There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  • -- E. L. Doctorow 达特罗

不再有小说或非小说;只有叙事。

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

我认为小说在总体上不太擅长支持或反对事物——一个短篇小说所能提出的修辞论点,只有通过增加特定的细节才能实现,而这些细节的特殊性使得故事得出的任何结论在更广泛的应用中都是无效的。

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

从作家的角度来看,小说的有趣之处在于,人物在你体内栩栩如生。然而他们是谁,在哪里?他们似乎和你周围的人一样,拥有或更多的活力和复杂性。

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

我不是个特别勇敢的孩子,我想,因为我有叙事的头脑,因为我的头脑自动地想到任何可能发生的可怕的事情。

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

史诗不是把一系列的英雄故事拼凑在一起,调整它们之间的差异,并把它们变成一个连续的故事。