A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

小说家就像所有的凡人一样，面对现实比面对过去更自在。

-- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫