Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

  • -- Dan Simmons 丹·西蒙斯

我确信,写作应该是一种颠覆性的活动,不应该被当局所反对,也不应该被某些老师以超出常识的方式所吹捧。

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They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

他们很可能会说,这不仅不是真的,而且我还会发布禁令,禁止发表。不,除非我被写这些故事的人说服,相信它们是真实的,否则我是不会写这些故事的。如果我错了,那就算了。

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

我很快就相信了……所有的理论都是空洞的大脑活动,因此如果不先弄清楚宇宙到底由什么组成,那就是在浪费时间。