Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。

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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

当然,艺术的错觉是让人相信伟大的文学作品与生活息息相关,但事实恰恰相反。生活是无定形的,文学是形式的。

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

那么多人走进你的生活,又离开了你!成千上万的人!你必须把门开着,这样他们才能进来!但这也意味着你必须放手!

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

所有的文学作品都是由作者认为很酷的东西组成的。读者会喜欢这本书到一定程度,他会同意作者关于什么是酷的观点。

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

我认为黑人小说作家必须非常努力地避免被打造成只寻求黑人读者的标签。

A book is a companion. I don't feel so alone in bed when I have a book with me.

书是伴侣。当我带着一本书躺在床上时,我不觉得那么孤单。

I don't read Science Fiction.

我不读科幻小说。