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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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

当然,艺术的错觉是让人相信伟大的文学作品与生活息息相关,但事实恰恰相反。生活是无定形的,文学是形式的。

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

毫无疑问,亚里士多德的伟大贡献之一,就是他如此清晰地构想出这样一个真理,即文学是一种不断发展并具有历史的东西。

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

一切都随波逐流:荣誉、骄傲、体面,这些都是写这本书所需要的。

The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

真实与虚构的区别在于,虚构必须有意义。

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

令我羞愧的是,除了经典小说,我不怎么读小说。

The best thing about writing is the reader.

写作最好的地方在于读者。