《耶路撒冷》写了六年,就它四十余万字的篇幅,这时间不能算短,可见,我写得很慢。写作之慢到了一定程度,当然让人恐惧,你会觉得你在从事一项永远也干不完的工作,那种孤筏重洋、茫无际涯之感会让你心中生出彻骨的孤独和恐惧。谁也帮不了你。所以,小说写完,朋友问我关于此小说最得意之处是什么,我总是说:写了六年。六年的冷板凳我坐住了。在这个凡事效率为上的时代,朋友们禁不住要赞叹我的慢性子和执著的血型与星座,我只好继续解释:想快也快不了, “Jerusalem” has been written for six years. Given its space of more than 400,000 words, this time can not be considered short. Therefore, I write very slowly. Writing slow to a certain extent, of course, people fear, you will feel that you are engaged in a never-ending work that kind of lonely raft, endless sense of boundless career will give you a heart-felt loneliness and fear. Nobody can help you either. So, the novel finished, a friend asked me what is the most prosaic about this novel, I always say: wrote for six years. Six years of cold bench I sat. In this era of efficiency for all things, friends can not help but praise my chronic and persistent blood type and constellation, I had to continue to explain: want to fast too fast,