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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

如果一个主题或想法太接近表面，小说就会变成一个简单的描绘一个想法的小册子。

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Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

在我看来，没有作家在写作过程中不经历痛苦，就不会有好的作品。写作应该是一种乐趣，但除非你在写小说的过程中多次感到几乎崩溃，否则你还没有给自己足够的压力。

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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

把一本书叫做小说的麻烦在于，我并不是一直在写同一本书，但是我的兴趣是有连续性的，所以当我开始写一本书的时候，如果我把它叫做“小说”，它就把它和其他的书分开了。

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You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

你知道自己是怎么想的，但事实并非如此，而是另外一回事。

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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

人愿意为一个思想而死，只要这个思想对他不是很清楚。

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