A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  • -- Dana Spiotta 达娜·斯皮奥塔

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

有时候,我必须把小说从脑海中挤出来,对孩子们产生兴趣。

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

在巨大的痛苦之后,一种正式的感觉来了。神经像坟墓一样隆重地坐着。

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说,你永远也写不出来!

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

我接受的正规教育对我来说毫无意义。