曾有作家说过,一个作家最终会写到自己的童年。我对这句话的理解是,当一个作家越写越复杂,越写越技术时,其写作必将回到朴素、简洁。因为艺术最高的境界是朴素与简洁。如果一个作家有一颗孩子般的心,能用孩子的眼光看问题,他会发现这个世界更奇妙,也将对这个世界看得更通透。有段时间,我抛下小说,专心写散文,是觉得散文更适合表达自己的内心。我有个固执的观念,散文不像小说,小说可以虚构,散文必须是真实的。于是,我写了一组以“尘烟断望”为总标题的散文,大概二十几篇,其中包括《低头看路》《钢圈记》,都是写自己童年与少年的生活。正如前面所说,作家最终会写到自己的童年,那些儿时的 Some writers have said that a writer will eventually write about his childhood. My understanding of this sentence is that when a writer writes more complicated and writing more skills, his writing is bound to be simple and concise. Because the highest artistic realm is simple and concise. If a writer has a childlike heart and looks through the eyes of a child, he will find the world even more marvelous and will see the world more transparent. For some time, I dropped a novel and devoted myself to writing essays. I felt it is more appropriate for prose to express my heart. I have a stubborn idea that essays are not like novels, fiction can be fiction, and essays must be real. So, I wrote a series of essays titled “Cigarette ” as the general title, with about twenty articles, including “Looking Down at the Road” and “Circle of Steel”, all of which are about writing their own childhood and teenage life. As mentioned earlier, writers will eventually write about their childhood, those childhood