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小说
Novels
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 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。
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。
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。
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
我想说，在我的小说中，爱是否仍然存在的问题，与陀思妥耶夫斯基的上帝是否存在的问题，扮演着同样的角色。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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I think of my novels as entertainments.
我认为我的小说是娱乐。
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。
Fiction novels, that's my game.
小说，那是我的游戏。
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。
I don't very often read novels.
我不常读小说。
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。