A child can't write novel very well.
一个小孩子写小说不会好到哪里去的。
As a historian, any historical novel you write would have a lot of credibility.
作为一名历史学家，您写的任何历史小说都有很大的可信度。
Why write a novel set in the future when your credentials are perfect for a historical novel?
既然您的资历很适合写历史小说，为什么还要写一部设定在未来的小说呢？
I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.
我起先打算写一篇短篇小说，但很快就写成了长篇小说。
It is a testimony to Roth's talent that he could not quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as his original conception for his novel Everyman seemed to demand.
这是对罗斯才华的证明，他不能接受自己不能完全按照对小说《所有人》的初衷所要求的那样，枯燥而平淡地写书。
If I had waited to have the time, I would still be waiting to write my novel.
如果我一直等着有空闲时间，我现在还会等着开始写小说。
When I decided to write a novel, I divided my two hours: the first for poetry, the second for fiction.
在决定写小说时，我把两个小时分成两部分：第一部分写诗，第二部分写小说。
The novel took a year to write altogether, from start to finish.
这篇小说从动笔到定稿，前后用了一年时间。
These events inspired Matteo Bandello to write his twenty-fourth novel.
这些事件激发了马特奥·班戴洛创作其第24部小说的灵感。
To write a novel, you have to read a novel––one that reads like a mystery to most people.
想要写一本小说，你不得不先读小说，一本对大多数人而言像本天书的小说。
I'm learning as I write my novel that you cannot be a writer unless you love the small things.
我一边写着自己的小说，一边学习这个原则：除非你热爱小事儿，否则你不能成为一名作家。
I'm learning as I write my novel that you cannot be a writer unless you love the small things. Unless you cherish them.
我一边写着自己的小说，一边学习这个原则：除非你热爱小事儿，否则你不能成为一名作家。
If you're hoping to write a best-selling novel, hire a writing coach or editor.
如果你希望写一部热销的小说，就找个写作指导或者编辑。
And I've always wanted to write a novel because, well, everyone wants to write a novel.
而且我一直都想要写一本小说，因为，呃，每个人都想写小说。
Maybe you can't afford to leave your boring job now to write your novel, but you can start planning, saving money, writing your outline, researching publishers.
可能你现在还不能为了想要写小说而放弃你那份无聊的工作，但你可以开始计划，开始存钱，开始写小说的提纲，开始研究研究出版社。
Not just "check email" but "write chapter in my novel" or "write that kick-ass blog post I've been planning" or "write that new Android app".
不仅是“浏览邮件”，而且“要写出有创见的小说章节”，或“发人深省的博客，”或“编写新的软件程序”等。
So if I lose that strength, I cannot write a novel any more. I can write some short stories, but not a novel.
如果失去任何一种力量，我就不能写长篇小说了，我只能去写短篇小说。
When I turned 29, all of a sudden out of nowhere I got this feeling that I wanted to write a novel - that I could do it.
当我29岁的时候﹐忽然觉得自己要写小说——而且认为自己可以这样做。
While juggling three teaching jobs and raising my two kids, it hit me one day that I might live my whole life without doing what I really wanted to do, which was to write a novel.
我每天往来奔波从事三份教学工作，还要抚养两个孩子，天天忙忙碌碌，紧紧张张倒也心安理得。 直到有一天，我不知怎么的突然想到要是如此度过一生我可能就真的没有机会实现长期萦绕在我心中的梦想---搞创作写小说。
When you don't feel motivated to write your poem, short story, novel, then don't write that.
当你提不起劲儿去写诗、写故事或小说的时候，就不要勉强自己。
It could be that you’ve always wanted to write a novel.
也许是你总盘算着写一本小说；
Some want to write the great American novel, but won't take the time to craft a great sentence.
有些人想成为美国小说巨匠，却不肯花费时间去琢磨字句。
Maybe you want to write a novel, get in shape, or earn some extra income with a side business.
或是写一本小说，减肥，或者赚点外快。
Somebody at a book-signing: "I've always wanted to be a writer. I could write a novel."
在书本的签售会上，有人说：“我一直都想成为一个作家。我能写小说的。”
I just know I would never have got round to it, except that someone approached me and said "Will you write a novel based on this?"
我知道这总是免不了的，除非有人找到我跟我说：‘你能在这玩意的基础上写出一本小说吗？’
I literally woke up one day, sat up on the end of the bed, and said, 'it's time to write a novel.'
有一天我醒来后坐在床上说，“写吧。”
It is a solemn and terrible thing to write a novel" (foreword xvii) .
写小说是件庄严而严肃的事情”（援引前言部分）。
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