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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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我最想做的就是成为一名小说家。如果你告诉我长大后要当艺术家或小说家,我会当面笑话你。

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。

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

你可以花一辈子的时间,如果你对自己诚实,你的工作从来没有完美过。

The bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

自行车当然应该永远是小说家和诗人的交通工具。

I feel privileged, to be honest.

说实话,我感到很荣幸。