A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

一本好的小说告诉我们关于主人公的真相;但是一部糟糕的小说告诉我们关于作者的真相。

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Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

我想我的计划是写诗,出版书,以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。

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

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。

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

我们都知道写作是一种隐居、孤独的努力。它只是。但是没有人单独写作。

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

书陪伴着我,塑造了我,对我的生活产生了巨大的影响。

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说,你永远也写不出来!

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

你是个陌生人,你想拿走我在图书馆的书。