The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

创造性的作家不仅是生活的受害者,也是生活的使用者;在他的作品中,他能够控制自我表现,而事实上,他的自我表现是受上千次事故的摆布。

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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

记忆不是特别线性的——它是联想的、重复的、主观的、多孔的。但作者需要传达的是无序和功能失调,而不是让小说本身混乱或功能失调。

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

短篇小说集通常被认为是可怕的熟料;对这位想要展示自己年轻时的战利品和鳟鱼蝇的年长作家来说,这是一种强制性的礼貌。