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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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

非小说类作品与头脑对话。小说能打动人心。诗歌与灵魂对话。这是美的本质。痛苦的本质。它使人赏心悦目。

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

我浪费了许多年的时间来写作,然后非常自豪地说:“现在……我的小说!很快就会变成一个短篇故事,然后变成一段。

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。

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。