When some writers face such a crisis, they may turn around and write the same kind of stuff they had been writing earlier. But I think that repetition is the most horrible fate of all. There were one or two long stretches of time when I stopped writing because I was unwilling to write on old themes and new themes were as yet unformed.
有些作者面臨這種狀況，可能就會回頭寫原來的東西；而我覺得「重覆」比一切都恐怖，有一、兩次長時間的停筆，都是面臨這種舊的題材不願意再寫、新的題材還未成形的狀況。