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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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

如果你能同时得到幽默和严肃,你就创造了一个特别的小东西,这就是我在寻找的,因为如果你变得自大,你就失去了一切。

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限,但又不愿屈尊于读者,让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

这是非常特别的;人们说他们看我打球,现在他们都变成职业球员了。

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

我要想上三、四十年才能写出来。

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

我不能再写分手记录了。那真是陈词滥调了。

Fiction is socially Fiction meaningful.

小说是具有社会意义的小说。