有朋友问我,写小说有没有什么技法?我回答说,好像应该有吧,不过,我是没有翻过那类书的。他十分惊讶:那你的小说又如何写呢?我说,一旦有了创作冲动,脑子里有了人物形象或者是故事梗概,我就写了。真的,我弄不明白那些“技法”从何而来,也从来不往自己的小说上套。我喜欢无拘无束,轻松自在,想怎么写就怎么写。研究小说技法,是文学教授和评论家们的事。 A friend asked me if there were any techniques for writing novels. I replied that it seems like there should be. However, I have not turned that kind of books. He was very surprised: How did you write your novels? I said that once there was a creative impulse, there was a character or a synopsis in my mind, and I wrote it. Really, I couldn’t understand where those “techniques” came from, and never went to my own novels. I like to be free and relaxed, and I want to write about how to write. Studying novel techniques is a matter of literary professors and critics.