Like what makes people want to keep reading certain newspaper articles or long novels?

比如，是什么让人们想继续阅读某些报纸文章或长篇小说？

Ms Clark takes her time with this long, undulating novel.

在这本情节跌宕起伏的长篇小说中，克拉克夫人的行文有点慢条斯理。

Hitherto had been more likely to pick up a newly discovered novel by Ayn Rand.

迄今为止，他更有可能拿起新发现艾茵·兰德所著的长篇小说。

In all, Holmes and Watson were featured in four novels and 56 short stories.

福尔摩斯和华生总共在4个长篇小说和56个短故事中出现过。

Well, I don't think that's a bad disability to have if you're going to write long novels.

如果你要写长篇小说，不认为这是一个糟糕的缺陷。

Maupassant's stories range from the short tale of few pages, one or two, to a full-length novel.

莫泊桑的故事篇幅长短不等，从一两页的短篇小说到长篇小说有猎莫泊桑的故事篇幅长短不等，从一两页的短篇小说到长篇小说有猎。

Dorothy West's first long book was published when she was more than forty years old.

多萝西·韦斯特的第一本长篇小说是在她四十多岁的时候出版的。

I enjoy a good, big novel, lots of difficult language in it, which could be described as meaty.

喜欢一本好的长篇小说，里面有很多艰深的语言，可以说是内容丰富。

Half a dozen asked to see the first eighty pages of his novel.

六个人要求看看他长篇小说的前八十页。

The reason I'm seeking representation now is that I'm at work on a novel.

之所以现在决定寻找经纪人是因为正在写一本长篇小说。

He wrote, then, prodigiously, for half a century: novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography.

此后，西利托爆发出惊人的能量，写作生涯长达半个世纪，及长篇小说、短篇小说、诗歌和自传。

He wrote many plays, novels and short stories about people's lives, and was named " the People's Artist" .

他写了很多关于人民生活的话剧，长篇小说和短篇小说，他被授予了“人民艺术家”的称号。

In 1955, he published his first novel.

1955年发表第一部长篇小说。

Well, do you want the short story or the long story?

那么，你想要短篇小说还是长篇小说？

In January of 1963, she published the novel The Bell Jar, but not using her own name.

1963年1月， 她出版了长篇小说《钟形罩》，但没有使用自己的名字。

Travolta was in the movie made out of Carrie, my first novel.

屈伏塔出演过的第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉丽》改编的电影。

Frank got serious about finding an agent at about the same time he got serious about his novel.

弗兰克是在正式决定要写长篇小说的时候认真考虑要找经纪人的。

He's a busy, busy boy. Nevertheless, in the back of his mind, he has begun to think about writing a novel.

真是忙得脚不沾地。但是，在脑海深处，他已经在考虑要写一部长篇小说。

Usually it is possible. What the Formula taught me is that every story and novel is collapsible to some degree.

这公式教的是，每个故事，或是长篇小说，到某个程度会站不住脚坍塌下来。

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.

写小说，尤其是长篇小说，可能是件孤单而艰难的工作，就像是乘坐浴缸穿越大西洋。