当编者写下这个题目时,心里想的其实是《当我们谈论写作时我们在谈论什么》——这个曾一度在小圈子里潜行的卡佛式标题。曾经听一作家说过,几乎所有试图定义与阐释写作的人都会遇到一个悖论,就像一枚硬币的正反两面,你在正面,人家就可能站在反面,反其道而行之,一样能写出好的,甚至是伟大的作品。对于一个写作者来说,也是如此。历史上出现过那么多的文学天才,十三岁就能写历史剧,十五岁就能写长诗,十八岁出版轰动一时的长篇小说,譬如诗人兰波,小说家萨冈。也有的作家是步入了中年甚至更晚才开始写作,譬如写出了《断背山》的安妮普鲁,写出了《离岸》的菲兹杰拉德。无论是早慧,还是晚熟,对于文学来说,都没有鲜明的标识,兰波十七岁写出的长诗《醉舟》,与托 When the editor wrote this question, he was actually thinking “what we are talking about when we talk about writing” - a Carver-style title that once stormed a small circle. Once heard a writer say that almost all people trying to define and explain writing encounter a paradox, like the positive and negative sides of a coin, and you are on the right side and people may stand on the opposite side of the road , The same can write good, even great works. The same is true for a writer. There have been so many literary geniuses in history, that historical drama can be written at the age of thirteen, long poetry can be written at the age of fifteen, and sensational novels such as the poet Rimbaud and the novelist Sagan are eighteen years old. Some writers even entered middle age or even later started writing. For example, they wrote Anipu Lu of Brokeback Mountain and wrote Fitzgerald “Offshore.” No matter early wisdom, or late-maturing, for the literature, there is no distinctive logo, the poem “Drunk Boat” written by Rimbaud at the age of 17, and care