I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

当评论家说我是通俗小说的大师时,我感到畏缩。什么是不受欢迎的小说?

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I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

我对写作有一种特定的情感,它来自于我知道两件事:作为一个读者,我喜欢读什么;作为一个作家,我能做什么。我知道自己的极限。我知道有些事我做不到。

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

任何傻瓜都能写书,而且他们中的大多数人都在写;但是盖房子需要头脑。