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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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

我的问题是,观众比以往任何时候都更懂小说。在莎士比亚的时代,你可能希望一生中看一两次戏剧;今天,你每天都会经历四五种不同的小说。所以要想在观众面前保持领先是不可能的。

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

我并不是真的想让故事和我看过的其他东西有所不同,我只是试着进入角色,进入他或她的大脑。试着让它尽可能地有趣、恐怖或狂野,这样我就真的喜欢它了。

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

一个人不妨试着骑两匹马向不同的方向运动,就像试着以同样的力量维持两种对立或矛盾的欲望。

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

写小说是一种表达情感的方式,揭示关于生活、目标、梦想和欲望的某种真相。

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

总而言之,我不认为这是一次糟糕的郊游。这是一次短途旅行。

Life's too short to even care at all.

生命如此短暂,根本无暇顾及。