A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小说
Novels
My novels are all ideas.
我的小说都是思想。
Novels are longer than life.
小说比生命还长。
Fiction novels, that's my game.
小说，那是我的游戏。
I don't very often read novels.
我不常读小说。
I think of my novels as entertainments.
我认为我的小说是娱乐。
My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
我的小说来自我的内心;它们是我觉得我想做的事情。
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
我在小说中不使用脏话。我的角色都去教堂。
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
我把小说作为礼物送人，这是我最喜欢收到的礼物了。
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
我不写小册子，我写小说。我不是传教士，我是小说家。
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
你可以说所有的小说都是间谍小说，所有的小说家都是间谍大师。
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
我总是惊讶于我的小说的早期版本是多么的糟糕。
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
事实上，我发现那些每一处都注定要搞笑的小说都很压抑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
我尽量把我所有的小说都印出来。有时候出版商对它们的价值并不认同。
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
只有在小说中，我们才能把另一个人带入我们的脑海，共同创造一些东西。
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
我听说过小说开始于中间，结束于结尾，以补丁的形式写出来，然后再把它们拼接在一起，但我从来没有想过要这么做。
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
的确，移民小说与人们从一个国家到另一个国家有关，但没有哪部小说不从一个地方旅行到另一个地方，无论是情感上还是地方上。
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
对于我在卖出任何东西之前写的小说，我没有列出太多的大纲。我对这个故事有一个模糊的概念。
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
在这三部小说之后，我一度放弃了写小说;我不满足于浪漫的厄运，但也没有看到太多的办法。