The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair

  中文譯本是《H.Q.事件的真相》,除了是一本討論謀殺案的小說以外,透過每個章節最前面的小段落,讀者也可以了解偉大作品應該如何呈現,或是人生該抓住甚麼東西。第二次看這本書還是覺得很精彩。

1. "A carer has to be built slowly. And as for writing a great novel, you don't need great ideas. Just be yourself and you'll get there, I have absolutely no doubt about that" (24).

2. "Life is a long drop down, Marcus. The most important thing is knowing how to fall" (72).

3. "Writers who spend all night writing, addicted to caffeine and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, are a myth, Marcus. You have to be disciplined. It's exactly the same as training to be a boxer. There are exercises to be repeated, at certain times of day. You have to be persistent, you have to maintain a certain rhythm, and your life has to be perfectly ordered. These are the three heads of Cerberus that will protect you from the writers worst enemy."
 "Which is what?"
 "The deadline." (234)

4. "That life had very little meaning. And that writing gave life meaning" (250).

5. "Writers live life more intensely than other people, I think. Don't write in the name of our friendship, Marcus. Write because it's the only way to make this tiny, insignificant thing we call life into a legitimate and rewarding experience" (250-1).

6. "That when you have an idea, rather than immediately turning it into one of your unreadable stories and publishing it on the first page of your magazine, you should not let it out. You should nurture it inside you, allow it to ripen until you feel it's the right moment" (278).

7. "Learn to love your failures, Marcus, because it is your failures that will make who you are. It is your failures that will give meaning to your victories" (389).

8. "Writing means being able to feel things more strongly than other people do and to communicate those feelings. Writing means allowing your readers to see things they sometimes can't see" (420).

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