Graham Swift - It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writ...

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It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

Graham Swift

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Trotzdem kann es für einen Romancier erschreckend sein, die Langsamkeit des Schreibens mit der Geschwindigkeit des Lesens zu vergleichen. Romane werden in wenigen Tagen oder sogar Stunden gelesen. Ein Schreiber kann Wochen für eine bestimmte Passage arbeiten, die sich für einen Augenblick auf einen Leser auswirkt - und dieser Effekt kann unterschwellig sein oder kaum wahrgenommen werden.

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