I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

  • -- Elizabeth George 伊丽莎白·乔治

我试图写一本好小说。无论是文学还是文学,都将由各个时代来决定,而不是由我,也不是由世界各地的一群评论家来决定。

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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

人们对老小说最常见的两种指责是,它让人感到邪恶地愉悦,它没有教给人们任何东西,但在人们发现这部小说既适合于正当使用,又适合于娱乐之前,这两种指责就已经站不住脚了。

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

爱是一切的答案。这是做任何事情的唯一理由。如果你不写你喜欢的故事,你就永远不会成功。如果你不写别人喜欢的故事,你永远不会成功。

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

有时候,我必须把小说从脑海中挤出来,对孩子们产生兴趣。

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

我讨厌花——我画它们是因为它们比模型便宜,而且它们不会动。

Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.

自我欺骗是乐观主义的悲观定义。

I write very slowly.

我写得很慢。