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小说
Fiction
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
我倾向于读更多的非小说类书籍，真的，因为当我写作的时候，我不喜欢读其他的小说。
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
每当我要写小说的时候，我总是要创造一个和我背景差不多的人物。
The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.
他们之间的空气开始平静下来。尴尬，但温柔的刺激。就像一个意想不到的下雪天。
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
我认为黑人小说作家必须非常努力地避免被打造成只寻求黑人读者的标签。
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
科幻电影与科学无关。它们是关于灾难的，这是最古老的艺术主题之一。
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
科幻小说让我意识到宇宙有多大，有多奇怪，把外星人这个问题抛诸脑后。
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
一个人死后，大地一般不愿把他咳回去。奇迹与地球的意志相矛盾。
Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.
写小说是一种表达情感的方式，揭示关于生活、目标、梦想和欲望的某种真相。
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
所有人在任何意义上都是自由平等的，或在任何时候都是自由平等的，这一学说是完全没有根据的。
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
关于软死亡或容易死亡的小说是大多数不被认为是可耻或有失身份的疾病神话的一部分。
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
作家所能做的，小说家、诗人或随笔作家所能做的，就是让人们重新认识到自己的人性。
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
谁知道心是虚构的，没有任何真实的东西，谁就知道他自己的心既不存在也不不存在。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。
I don't read Science Fiction.
我不读科幻小说。