英国埃克塞特城大学以心理学家迈克尔·霍教授为首的科学家们断言:一个人的文学成就,至少是一个散文作家的文学成就,几乎百分之百是靠锲而不舍的劳动精神。他们对过去一些大作家的传记进行过研究,得出的结论是:“所谓的灵感对一些杰出作品的诞生所起的作用微乎其微,那些作品能问世首先靠的是作家实际的熟练技巧。”照他们看来,这里没有任何秘密可言。然而,他们的这个结论却与某些作家本人的声明相矛盾……英国作家狄更斯(1812—1870)小时候 Scientists led by Michael Jackson, a psychologist at Exeter City University in the United Kingdom, have asserted that a man’s literary achievement, at least as a literary achievement of an essayist, is achieved by almost a hundred years of perseverance. They studied the biographies of some of the great writers in the past and concluded: “The so-called inspiration has had a very small effect on the birth of some outstanding works, and the first of these works came from the writer’s actual skill.” They do not seem to have any secret here. However, their conclusion contradicts the statement of some writers themselves ... When British author Dickens (1812-1870) was a child