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短篇小说
Short Story
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。
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
一个优秀的短篇小说作家有一种本能，就是在足够的背景下勾勒出一个特定的故事。
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.
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。
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
我认为小说在总体上不太擅长支持或反对事物——一个短篇小说所能提出的修辞论点，只有通过增加特定的细节才能实现，而这些细节的特殊性使得故事得出的任何结论在更广泛的应用中都是无效的。