even when he was married and had a son,

甚至他结婚并且有了儿子后
when he was a young man.

当时他只是个年轻人
He's on his third marriage now.

现在他结了第三次婚了
He would turn down invitations to read

他会拒绝邀请
even when they were down to their last dollar.

甚至当他们只剩一点钱
His ex-wife tells some amusing stories about this.

他的前妻讲了一些关于这的有趣的故事
He'd get an invitation to read, he'd turn it down,

收到邀请函后他拒绝了
and they'd eat beans for another night.

然后第二天晚上他们会接着吃豆子
So, that's her take on what that life was like.

这是她所呈现的那种生活的样子
He says in this interview:

他在这次采访中说道
"The ugly fact is books are made out of books.

丑陋的事实是书组成了书
The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written. "

为了生存小说依赖于那些已经写成的小说