Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

短篇小说写作需要细腻的平衡感。坦率地说,小说家可以获得更多。一部小说可能会有一两个乏味的地方,因为读者已经做出了不同的承诺。

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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

我很会讲故事;我对人很有同情心。这对小说家来说非常有用。许多小说家都是势利小人。他们只是些卑鄙的人。我不是一个非常熟练的造型师,我也不想成为。我想让很多人读我的故事,然后说,‘那太酷了。’

We are handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.

我们被赋予了血液的平衡和生命的形状,并被告知要对它们做些什么。

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

就我个人而言,我从未希望自己是一名男性小说家。

My kids give me the balance to live right.

我的孩子们给了我正确生活的平衡。