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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Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

在我看来,没有作家在写作过程中不经历痛苦,就不会有好的作品。写作应该是一种乐趣,但除非你在写小说的过程中多次感到几乎崩溃,否则你还没有给自己足够的压力。

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。