A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小说
Novel
Novel writing wrecks homes.
写小说毁了房子。
I wrote the worst novel ever.
我写了有史以来最糟糕的小说。
I've never abandoned the novel.
我从未放弃过这本小说。
There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
在伯格的小说中从来没有一个错误的音符。
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
小说是一面在大街上行走的镜子。
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
只有在小说中，所有的东西都得到充分的发挥。
So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.
于是，我写了一本恐怖小说，开始写作。
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
我写了我的第一部小说，因为我想读它。
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
今天我开始了我决心要成为伟大的小说。
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
我认为没有人写过伟大的漫画小说。
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
小说写作无疑是我所知道的最累人的工作。
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
一部小说抓住了任何其他形式都不可能抓住的精髓。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
生活不像小说，但小说可以像生活。最好的总是那些。
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
水门事件是一桩极其复杂的丑闻，涉及的人物形形色色，就像托尔斯泰的小说一样。
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
我心里有本爱情小说，但我雇了三个水手用钢管把它打出来。
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
对我来说，这似乎就是“小说”的定义:一个尚未找到简洁方式的故事。
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
这本小说对我来说是个意外。我真的不认为自己是个小说家。
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。