一位年轻朋友问我,何谓散文?怎样区分散文与小说和诗歌?我开玩笑,打比方说:一个人平平常常走在路上——就像散文。一个人忽然被推到水里——就成了小说。一个人给大地弹射到月亮里——那是诗歌。散文,就是写平常生活中那些最值得写下来的东西。不使劲,不刻意,不矫情,不营造,更无须“绞尽脑汁”。散文最终只是写一点感觉、一点情境、一点滋味罢了。当然,这“一点”往往令人深切难忘。在艺术中,深刻的都不是制造出来的。散文生发出来时,也挺特别,也不像小说和诗歌。小说是想出来的,诗歌是蹦出来的; A young friend asked me what an essay is and how to distinguish between essays and novels and poems? I jokingly say, for example, that one usually follows the path - just like a prose. A man suddenly pushed into the water - became a novel. A person to the earth into the moon - it is poetry. Essay, is to write the most worthy of ordinary life to write down things. Not hard, not deliberate, not hypocritical, not to create, not even “rack their brains ”. The final essay is just to write a little feeling, a little situation, a little taste Bale. Of course, this “little” is often memorable. In art, profound things are not created. Essays are also very special, not like fiction and poetry. The novel is come out, poetry is pop out;