I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

-- George Saunders 山德斯

我浪费了许多年的时间来写作，然后非常自豪地说:“现在……我的小说!很快就会变成一个短篇故事，然后变成一段。

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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

我仍然偶尔会写短篇小说，偶尔也会看小说，但这并不是我想做的。

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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

我可以以一种在当代小说中难以成功塑造的方式塑造任何角色。

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If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

如果你到四十岁还没有写小说，你永远也写不出来!

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