I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

  • -- Tom T. Hall 汤姆·T·霍尔

在我成为作家之前,我是个十足的读者。

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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

记忆不是特别线性的——它是联想的、重复的、主观的、多孔的。但作者需要传达的是无序和功能失调,而不是让小说本身混乱或功能失调。

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

问一个作家对评论家的看法就像问灯柱对狗的感觉一样。

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

我不怎么看杂志,看书也很讨厌。

Will the reader turn the page?

读者会翻过这一页吗?