就像一个熟练的时装设计师，我们小说家给故事穿衣服，就像他们一天天地改变形状，以适应他们的人物。

Like skilled fashion designers, we novelists clothe stories, as they change shape from day to day, in words suited to their figures.

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这位评论家令我们注意到小说家在他们自己的作品中悄然出场和退场的方式：一会儿在这儿以小说人物的身份说话，一会儿在那儿撩开面纱现出作者的本声。

The critic calls attention to the way novelists slip sneakily in and out of their own prose, here speaking as a character, there pulling back the veil and revealing the voice of the author.

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想起著名科幻小说家罗伯特.海雷恩的作品《一个陌生人的漂泊》,很多人都对其中一个台词记忆犹新: “你就是上帝”．小说人物分别用这样的方式和彼此招呼并道别着。

The line was, “Thou art God.” In his book, Heinlein had many people greeting and saying goodbye to each other in this way.

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