I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

  • -- Curtis Sittenfeld 科蒂斯·希登费尔德

我没有什么特别的仪式,但我不会写小说,除非我有几个小时的时间。对我来说,我需要一段时间来适应一种真正集中注意力的模式。

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

我认为小说在总体上不太擅长支持或反对事物——一个短篇小说所能提出的修辞论点,只有通过增加特定的细节才能实现,而这些细节的特殊性使得故事得出的任何结论在更广泛的应用中都是无效的。

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

我认为有些小说家的作品很好。我永远也做不到。我觉得,当我看到这是一首诗的时候,它几乎已经写在我的脑海里了。

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

有句话说,“写歌很容易,但写好歌却很难。”“我现在正在经历这些。

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

很长一段时间以来,我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好,写得比我能写的更好。

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

北极国家野生动物保护区是一个独特的、生物学上特殊的地方,应该被保护。

Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

兰博一直很特别,密尔沃基也是。