Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

现代悲剧作家不得不写短篇小说;如果他们写长篇故事,快乐就会悄然而至。这样的故事就像刺;短暂,但纯粹是痛苦。

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink.

写传记时,事实和虚构不能混为一谈。如果是的话,小说部分应该用红墨水印刷,事实部分应该用黑墨水。

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

我没有写过我没有写过的故事。