Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

  • -- Cory Doctorow 科利·多克托罗

对我来说,小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时,这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。

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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

对于任何类型的小说,这个建议都是一样的。继续写信,继续寄东西,不是寄给朋友和亲戚,而是寄给那些有能力买东西的人。可以添加许多额外的、有用的技巧,但这是基本的。

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

每一个事实一方面与感觉有关,另一方面又与道德有关。思想的游戏是,在这两方面的一个方面出现后,找到另一个方面:给定上面的一面,找到下面的一面。

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

一种以语言为媒介的艺术总是会表现出高度的批判性创造性,因为语言本身就是对生活的一种批判:它通过创造来命名、描述、评判。

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

并不是说创造性行为和批判性行为是同时发生的。这更像是你脱口而出,然后分析它。

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

勒罗伊跟我打赌,我在最后找不到一罐金子,我告诉他那是个愚蠢的赌注,因为彩虹就足够了。

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

你所要做的就是把一个词接一个词地写下来,记住当作家的感觉有多棒。

Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it.

理查德其实不喜欢我杀虫子,但有时我也没办法。

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

写作就是学会什么都不说,每天都更聪明。

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

我喜欢被误认为是有用的人。