The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  • -- Fred Saberhagen 弗雷德·萨卜哈根

对于任何类型的小说,这个建议都是一样的。继续写信,继续寄东西,不是寄给朋友和亲戚,而是寄给那些有能力买东西的人。可以添加许多额外的、有用的技巧,但这是基本的。

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There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

有好几次,因为给朋友发了一份邮件,我又重读了一遍,或者至少是草草翻阅了一遍,而通常发生的情况是,我注意到一堆又一堆笨拙的短语,真希望我能重写一遍。

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

在我旅行的过程中,那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面,我的旅行对我非常有用。

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

这是我热切的愿望和最大的野心,我留下了一些有用的指示,为钢琴家在我之后的工作。

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

你知道,我经历了整个二战,看到我所有的朋友都被杀了。

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

人们想要的大多数东西的问题是他们得到了。

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

如果你不让事情发生,那么事情就会发生在你身上。