I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

  • -- Aleksandar Hemon 亚历山大·黑蒙

我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限,但又不愿屈尊于读者,让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。

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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

我的问题是,观众比以往任何时候都更懂小说。在莎士比亚的时代,你可能希望一生中看一两次戏剧;今天,你每天都会经历四五种不同的小说。所以要想在观众面前保持领先是不可能的。

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

这本书是一部发生在读者心中的电影。这就是为什么我们去看电影时说,哦,书更好看。

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

我在写小说,但没有写完。