I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line.

  • -- Karen Russell 卡伦·拉塞尔

我有一些朋友,他们能够写一个非常粗略的草稿,然后回去刺绣——他们有点像小说的大教堂建造者。我从来都不知道自己在做什么,我所有的快乐都在这条线上。

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说,小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于,在小说中,作者可以真实地说出真相,而不会让自己蒙羞。

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。

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

当一个人凝视着石堆时,它就不再是石堆了,在他的心中有一座大教堂的形象。

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

古老的大教堂很好,但是悬挂在一切之上的蓝色大圆顶更好。