I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  • -- Patrick White 帕特里克·怀特

我养成了关着门写小说的习惯,或者在叔叔家的餐桌上写小说。

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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

人们对老小说最常见的两种指责是,它让人感到邪恶地愉悦,它没有教给人们任何东西,但在人们发现这部小说既适合于正当使用,又适合于娱乐之前,这两种指责就已经站不住脚了。

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

把一本书叫做小说的麻烦在于,我并不是一直在写同一本书,但是我的兴趣是有连续性的,所以当我开始写一本书的时候,如果我把它叫做“小说”,它就把它和其他的书分开了。