Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

  • -- Eric Brown 埃里克·布朗

嗯,说实话,我认为我比小说家更擅长写短篇小说。我发现小说非常难读,长时间、长时间、长时间、长时间地有意识地思考,而短篇小说几天就能毫无痛苦地脱口而出。

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To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

想象自己在另一个人的内心……是一个故事作家在每一部作品中所做的;我想这是他的第一步,也是最后一步。

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

我认为这是一个短篇小说作家的责任,以及写好关于情感和人物,写故事。

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

对我来说,作为一个初出茅庐的小说家,所有其他在世的作家组成了一个对照组,对他们来说,世界就是安慰剂。

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

我并不真的认为自己是小说家,那只是纯属偶然。

The only honest people in the world are small children and drunk people.

世界上唯一诚实的人是小孩子和醉汉。

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

作家的第一项工作是诚实。