Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

小说中的对话应该保留到高潮的时刻,并把它看作是一种浪花,叙事的巨浪在浪花中折向岸边的观察者。

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We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

我们必须承认和平处于危险之中,人类仍然没有意识到世界对话对武装冲突和流血冲突的优先地位。

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

我所有的角色都有很大一部分是我的。我的很大一部分,因为这是我的对话,这是我思考和说话的方式。