After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

  • -- Nicholas Mosley 莫斯利

在这三部小说之后,我一度放弃了写小说;我不满足于浪漫的厄运,但也没有看到太多的办法。

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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

我认为建筑师的训练能让你提前十年或二十年看到会发生什么。这不是猜测,不是直觉,而是基于研究——我们可能错了。

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

但许多作家——我就是其中之一——确实倾向于感到不满。它让你有点难以相处,但它是一种刺激,让你保持警觉和不安。

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

我想说,在我的小说中,爱是否仍然存在的问题,与陀思妥耶夫斯基的上帝是否存在的问题,扮演着同样的角色。

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

对于我在卖出任何东西之前写的小说,我没有列出太多的大纲。我对这个故事有一个模糊的概念。

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

成为大沼泽地的朋友并不一定要花时间在那里闲逛。