我总是把要写的东西放在肚子里酝酿很长一段时间,方才落诸笔墨;我在南洋一带构思的一些短篇小说,先只是随便记下一点,直到四年之后,方才写出第一篇。短篇小说我已经多年不写了。开始写作生涯时写过;我出版的第三本书就是六篇短篇小说,都写得不好。这以后,我不时试着写些短篇小说登在杂志 I always put what I wanted to write in my stomach for a long time just to fall into the cracks; some short stories that I conceived in the Nanyang area were just going to memorize a little before I wrote them four years later Articles I have not written short stories for many years. When I started my writing career, the third book I published was six short stories, all of which were not well written. After that, I try to write some short stories from time to time in the magazine