I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

  • -- Toni Morrison 托尼·莫里森

我写了我的第一部小说,因为我想读它。

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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

没有人告诉我出版有多难。我写了四本没人要的小说,到处散发,收集了成百上千的退稿单。

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

如果你一个人写小说,你就坐着,编一个小故事。这是好,但这无关紧要。

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

我八岁时写了第一部剧本。