A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小说
Fiction
Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
我们从小说中排除的任何主题都会从我们的文化记忆中消失。
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
一个人的脸就是他的自传。女人的脸是她的小说作品。
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
想象和虚构占我们现实生活的四分之三以上。
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
小说作家，当他们开始写作时，更倾向于尝试简短的形式。
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
令我羞愧的是，除了经典小说，我不怎么读小说。
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
我的生活中虚构的东西比书里的要多，所以我不去管它们。
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
我从八年级就开始写小说了，因为我喜欢它。
The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.
真实与虚构的区别在于，虚构必须有意义。
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
小说很有趣——一旦你剪掉一些东西，它就不会再发生了。
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
小说对我来说很重要。这就是我所做的，这就是我的人生。
Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.
即将到来的通用破产总是虚构的，由华尔街和媒体制造。
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
不再有小说或非小说;只有叙事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
事实上，每个作家，不管是小说还是非小说，都在尝试写一些真正原创的东西，这就是我认为我在做的。
Fiction is socially Fiction meaningful.
小说是具有社会意义的小说。
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
我们喜欢小说的一个原因是故事有一个令人舒适的形状。它们提供了我们日常生活中缺乏的决心。
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
小说帮助我重新与日常生活中固有的真实、深刻的怪异联系起来，在我们与他人的交往中，在活着的过程中。
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
当我写小说时，我有了更多的自由，但我的回忆录对我的读者产生了更大的影响。不知何故，“信息”，即使我甚至不知道有一个，以这种形式更好地传达。
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解，只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍，却无话可说。