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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

当我遇到写很长的小说的作家时，我自己也留下了可悲的印象。他们怎么能把几百个小时花在创作小说这种痛苦、孤独的消遣上呢?

— Arthur Smith 明恩溥