《人物》:到人民大学之后,你写作的心态有变化吗?阎连科:我们的作家在作办的环境和体制下,不得不疲于奔命,要考虑去得茅盾文学奖之类的事。但回到教育系统,再也不用去完成规定的任务了,在这里的写作就是看你写出来什么,是你的才华、能力、机会的问题,这才是从生活本身回归到文学本身了。年龄大了,又回归到了更自由的状态。最好的写作状态已经过去了,最理性的写作状态可能到来了。《人物》:这是怎样的状态?阎连科:一是,在写作的时候,会有更多警惕的问题,不是别人在管理而是自己内心在管理。自己把自己关起来了,而自己却没有发现,这是最可怕的。这样子你会不知道天空有多宽广,就像关在笼子里面的鸟儿,以为是自由的,其实是受束缚的。二是,经验也会对自己有着束缚,你可以写出充满技巧的小说,但是不一定能写出有情感和灵感的小说了。这个是我需要警惕的,你可以让小 “People”: After you go to Renmin University, do you change your mindset? Yan Lianke: Our writers have to work hard under the environment and system in which they work. They must consider going to Mao Dun Literature Prize and so on. However, returning to the education system, we no longer have to fulfill the prescribed tasks. What we write here is to see what you write and what is your talent, ability and opportunity. This is the return from life itself to the literature itself. Older, returned to a more free state. The best writing state is over, the most rational state of writing may come. “People”: What is this state? Yan Lianke: First, when writing, there will be more vigilance issues, not by others but by their own inner management. It is the most terrible to shut yourself up, but not discover it yourself. In this way, you will not know how broad the sky is, like a bird in a cage, thinking that it is free and is in fact bound. The second is that experience also has its own bound, you can write a full-fiction novel, but not necessarily write a novel with emotion and inspiration. This is what I need to be vigilant, you can make small