Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  • -- Jessamyn West 杰萨姆·韦斯特

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。

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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

恐怖迷和科幻迷之间的主要区别在于他们不会后退。恐怖迷不会后退,因为他知道自己会被疯子刺伤。科幻迷不会后退,因为他知道自己会踩到猫。

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

我喜欢读书和写作,但后来发生了一些事。在我完成学业的过程中,我不断收到别人递给我的书,这些书既不能让我兴奋,也与我的生活现实毫无关联。

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

与小说不同的是,小说是你在投入生产之前创作的,而现实是你在所有东西都生产出来之后创作的。戏剧和故事都是后期完成的。

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

我想这其中也包含了刻意改变的因素。至少在我看来,我的每一本书都与上一本书截然不同。

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

在现实生活中,什么都不是。事情发生了,却没有结构。

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

没有图书馆,我们还有什么?我们没有过去,也没有未来。

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

徒步旅行的人会看到世界的本来面目。