I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

  • -- George Saunders 山德斯

我浪费了许多年的时间来写作,然后非常自豪地说:“现在……我的小说!很快就会变成一个短篇故事,然后变成一段。

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When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

当我开始接近一部小说的结尾时,我的脑海中就会出现下一部小说要写的东西,所以我通常不写作,也不做笔记。我当然不会开始。我只是让东西渗一会儿。

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

小说的形式总是与其他形式相结合。对我来说,它一直是终极媒介。

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

我仍然偶尔会写短篇小说,偶尔也会看小说,但这并不是我想做的。