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.

  • -- Sharon Olds 奥尔兹

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。

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I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我经常参加体育运动,所以我养成了一种非常非常尊重别人的打球心态,但同时也对自己说,‘不要退缩,如果可能的话,和这些家伙在一起。如果他们把球扔得又高又紧,你就必须站在里面,你不能让自己离开那一刻。

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

小说帮助我重新与日常生活中固有的真实、深刻的怪异联系起来,在我们与他人的交往中,在活着的过程中。

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

多年的科幻小说形成了一种观念,认为人类的命运就是要从地球扩展到月球、火星和星星。

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

假设每个人都生活在同一时间,他们会说什么?他们会发现,串豆子是很普遍的。