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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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

刚开始的时候,我的背景是制作、写作和在电视上表演,我真的很怀念那种,那种来自“我自己”的讲故事的创作过程。

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书,如果艺术不能让我们变得更好,那么它到底是为了什么。