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.

-- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

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。

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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。

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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

我试着帮助人们成为他们自己作品的最好的编辑，帮助他们意识到他们擅长的事情，他们需要重新审视的事情，他们甚至还没有开始尝试的材料的源泉。

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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。

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We've begun to get justice.

我们已经开始伸张正义。

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