为自己的小说画插图,是一种另类的爱好,画的也是一种另类的画。作家写人物时,这人物的音容笑貌先是清清楚楚在自己心里,然后用笔把他写出来。可是,作家能把人物活脱脱写出来就行了,干嘛还要再画出来呢?给小说画插图是画家的事呀。为什么有的作家喜欢干这种事?比方雨果、萨克雷、马雅可夫斯基等等。一方面是因为这些作家擅长画画;会画画的人,总是情不自禁把自己脑袋里的形象画出来。你看普希金和莱蒙托夫的手稿上,不是常画着一 Drawing illustrations for one’s own novel is an alternative hobby, and painting is also an alternative painting. When a writer writes a character, the character’s voice and smile first clearly in his heart, and then write him with a pen. However, writers can write off the characters live off the line, why do they have to draw it? To paint illustrations is a painter’s thing. Why do some writers like to do such things? For example Hugo, Saclay, Mayakovsky and so on. On the one hand, these writers are good at drawing; those who can draw often can not help but draw the image of their own head. You do not often paint one on the manuscripts of Pushkin and Lermontov