喬恩·麥格雷戈
英國文學(xué)新銳
The best fiction makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
最好的小說讓熟悉的變得陌生，讓陌生的變得熟悉。
Every story is a kind of ghost, haunting the present.
每個故事都是一種幽靈，縈繞在當(dāng)下。
The past is a place we can visit but never stay.
過去是一個我們可以造訪但無法停留的地方。
Writing is about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
寫作就是在平凡中發(fā)現(xiàn)非凡。
The most ordinary lives are full of extraordinary moments.
最平凡的生活中充滿了非凡的瞬間。
A story is never finished; it’s only abandoned.
故事永遠(yuǎn)不會完成，只會被放棄。
The things we don’t say shape us as much as the things we do.
我們未說出口的話塑造我們的程度不亞于我們說過的話。
The act of writing is an act of faith—in language, in the reader, in the story itself.
寫作是一種信仰的行為——對語言、對讀者、對故事本身的信仰。
A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, across time.
Even in the quietest lives, there is drama.
即使在最安靜的生活中，也有戲劇性。