Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

小说作家,当他们开始写作时,更倾向于尝试简短的形式。

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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。

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

如果你否认任何行为准则都是所有试图理性行事的人所共有的,并得到他们的承认,那么,我看不出你怎么会有任何道德或法律方面的道德背景。

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

今天的录音技术在四十年前会被认为是科幻小说。

Life's too short you can't prove everyone wrong.

生命太短暂,你不能证明每个人都错了。

My fault now is making my plays too short.

现在我的错是我的剧本太短了。

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

谈论一个梦想,试着让它成真。