A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小说
Fiction
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
小说是关于与人物、事件、地点的亲密关系。
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
后来我发现我喜欢写诗胜过写小说。
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
如果乌托邦小说成为新潮流，我不会去读它。
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
科幻小说的方法是解剖和重构。
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
戏剧是虚构的，而虚构是将事实提炼成真理。
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
在科幻小说中，你也可以测试你自己的现实。
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
他的理论是，非小说可以像小说一样巧妙。
Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality.
然而，小说有时会让人对现实失望。
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
小说和非小说，对我来说，包含了非常不同的过程。
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
对我来说，世界上最纯粹、最真实的艺术是科幻小说。
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
基本上，小说就是人。你不能写关于思想的小说。
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
小说和散文可以为理论上的陌生人创造同理心。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
首先，写作充其量——当然是小说写作——我认为越来越多的写作是有魔力的。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
鉴于外部现实是虚构的，作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构，因为小说已经存在了。
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
小说给了我们第二次机会，而生活却否定了我们。
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
写小说最难的部分是找到很长的时间来写作:对我来说，这意味着大部分时间都要在周六和周日写作。但我总是在想我的角色，在偷来的瞬间写下我的想法，希望周末到来时我能弄懂它们。