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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
我想以写这些小说为职业，我可以为此感到自豪。然后我想要一个编剧。
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。
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.
你知道，在过去，你可能可以通过出版两三本小说来慢慢地为你的作品建立一个读者群，然后你就会大红大红。你知道，现在出版社更加强调确保每本书都能赚钱。
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。
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
在我写的前七部小说中，第四部和第五部已经出版。数字一、二、三、六、七，从来没有见过天日……这样做是对的。
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
以我的经验来看，小说来得很慢，一旦开始写，我就知道我还有几年而不是几个月的工作要做。