约瑟夫·康拉德一直称自己毫无写作才能,每个字需经苦苦思索方可得求,而其他作家为何写得那样得心应手,这对他永远是个难解之谜。记得一次我们在一起谈论某些作家的作品数量,康拉德说他曾见过一个熟悉的作家走进人声鼎沸的房间,坐在角落里一刻不停地写出洋洋洒洒几千字,令他惊叹不已。他琢磨不透那位作家写作何以如此神速。但是康拉德的写作速度如此之慢,对于那位坐在角落里的作家也许同样不可思议。晚年的康拉德认为平均一天350字是很合适的指标,就是这也只有在他动笔的日子里才能兑现。他有时一连几周疾病缠身,郁悒苦闷,不得不辍笔休息。他居住在奥斯沃尔兹时,除早晨外,其它时间极少动笔或口授作品。但他工作时总是将自己和秘 Joseph Conrad has always claimed that he has no writing ability, every word can only be obtained after hard thinking, and why other writers are so handy, it will always be a mystery to him. Remember once we talked about the number of works by some writers, Conrad said he had seen a familiar writer go into a dingy room, sitting in a corner writing endlessly thousands of words to make him Amazing. He wondered how fast the writer was writing. But Conrad’s writing was so slow, perhaps equally magical for the writer sitting in the corner. In his later years, Conrad thought that an average of 350 words a day was a good indicator that it would only be realized on the day he wrote. He sometimes sick for several weeks, Yu Kui depressed, had to stop pen break. When he lived in Oswalt, he worked very hard to write or dictate other than morning. But he always keeps himself and her secret while working