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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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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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

因此，当我仔细考虑这个问题时，由于我的观点的新奇和明显的荒谬，我不得不害怕受到轻视，这几乎使我完全放弃了我已经开始的工作。

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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。

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Fiction novels, that's my game.

小说，那是我的游戏。

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