Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

  • -- Roald Dahl 罗尔德·达尔

两个小时的小说写作使这位作家精疲力竭。在那两个小时里,他跟完全不同的人在一个不同的地方。

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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

在密西西比河两岸及其众多支流的天然地带和人工运河开凿的地方,我看到了几段笔直的树桩,它们的根连在一起,埋在不同高度的地层中,一个接一个。

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

如果我有一个预先设定好的情节,我为什么要经历写小说的痛苦呢?小说至少对我来说是一种探索和发现。

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

我喜欢做很多不同的事情,到处走走。

I'm going to quit writing.

我要停止写作了。