Chapter 1 “EveryMorning”
‘I’m leaving now,’ Teresa said.
I looked up from the newspaper. I was in the kitchen,at the table.
‘I’m leaving,’ Teresa, my wife, said again. She stoodat the kitchen table and looked down at me. I looked atmy watch. It was eight o’clock in the morning. Timefor Teresa, my wife, to go to work. She was a lawyer, avery good lawyer. And she was beautiful.
‘What are you going to do today?’ Teresa asked.
‘Don’t go back to bed! Why don’t you go out and lookfor a job?’
‘Oh no,’ I thought. ‘Eight o’clock in the morning,and she’s telling me to get a job.’
‘But I’ve got a job,’ I said, for about the thousandthtime. ‘I’m a writer.’
‘But you never finish your books! You begin lots ofbooks, but you never finish them.’
She was right. I write by hand in small notebooks –I’ve got lots of notebooks under the bed – but I don’tfinish the books.
And sometimes I don’t work. Sometimes I sit all daywith a white piece of paper and a pen and write nothing.Sometimes I sleep all morning and then I get up andwatch television all afternoon.

第1章　　《每日清晨》
“現(xiàn)在我要走了，”特麗薩說。
我抬眼從報紙上方看過去。我在廚房里，坐在桌旁。
“我要走了，”特麗薩，我妻子，又說了一遍。她站在餐桌旁低頭看著我。我看了看手表，是早上八點鐘了，特麗薩，我妻子，該去上班了。她是律師，一名很好的律師。而且她很漂亮。
“今天你打算做什么？”特麗薩問道�！皠e回床上睡覺！你為什么不出去找份工作呢？”
“哦，不會吧，”我心想�！按笤缟习它c鐘，她就讓我去找工作�！�
“可是我有工作，”我說，這話我說了大概有上千次了�！拔沂亲骷�。”
“但你從來沒有把書寫完！很多部書你都開了個頭，但你從來沒有寫完過。”
她說得對。我把東西都寫在小筆記本上——我的床下有很多筆記本——但這些書都沒有寫完。
有時候我不干活兒。有時候我坐上一整天，拿著一張白紙和一支鋼筆，沒寫上一個字。有時候我整個上午睡覺，然后起床，接著整個下午看電視。