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.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

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。

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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

好的小说创造同理心。一部小说带你去某个地方,让你透过另一个人的眼睛去看另一个人,去过另一种生活。

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

一个优秀的短篇小说作家有一种本能,就是在足够的背景下勾勒出一个特定的故事。

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

很多宇宙学家和天体物理学家显然都读过科幻小说。