The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  • -- Jim Rohn 吉米隆

对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说,小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于,在小说中,作者可以真实地说出真相,而不会让自己蒙羞。

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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

不幸的是,许多不真诚的文学和艺术,仅仅是为了达到目的而进行的,是通过欺骗公众而成功的。

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

关于软死亡或容易死亡的小说是大多数不被认为是可耻或有失身份的疾病神话的一部分。

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

归根结底,文学不过是木工活。你们都在与现实打交道,一种和木头一样坚硬的材料。

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

科幻小说让我意识到宇宙有多大,有多奇怪,把外星人这个问题抛诸脑后。

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

自传始于一种孤独的感觉。这是一种孤儿形式。

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more.

到了一定程度,你就会停止写作,更多地思考。