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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。
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
在早期的史考特和狄更斯、萨克雷之间，有大量的小说作品，其中不少小说的名字应该排在第二类小说的前列，而有些则会把其中不止一个提升到第一类。
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
伟大、宏大、严肃的小说总会获奖。如果这是一部伟大、宏大、严肃的小说和一部有趣的小说之间的战争，那么有趣的小说注定要失败。
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。
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。
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。
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。