You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

你可以说所有的小说都是间谍小说,所有的小说家都是间谍大师。

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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

在早期的史考特和狄更斯、萨克雷之间,有大量的小说作品,其中不少小说的名字应该排在第二类小说的前列,而有些则会把其中不止一个提升到第一类。

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

以我的经验来看,小说来得很慢,一旦开始写,我就知道我还有几年而不是几个月的工作要做。

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

我从编曲大师那里学到了很多,比如拉威尔和斯特拉文斯基。

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

买旧主人。他们卖得比老情妇好。