A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小说家
Novelist
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
历史学家:不成功的小说家。
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
乔伊斯是一位诗人，也是一位笨拙的学究。
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
小说家的作用……就是以他的眼光来评价生活。
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
奥斯汀小姐向小说家展示了平凡事物和现实事物的无限可能性。
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
小说家的作品既不是为了纠正也不是为了宽恕，不是为了安慰，而是为了使所讲的内容生动活泼。
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
奥威尔是那种充满委屈的人。他非常忠诚。一旦他了解你，他就非常忠诚。他满腔怒火，毫无理智地憎恨着。
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.
作为一个小说家，我想我可以说我的表达能力很强。但我知道，作为一个人，在其他方面，我并不总是能言善辩。我认为，在某种程度上，我们有时，对某些事情都是口齿不清的。
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
唱歌和写诗是完全不同的。我不是也永远不会成为小说家，但是写小说和写剧本是两码事。形式不同，但本质上是一样的。