By so doing you will certainly profit the art of fiction.

通过这样做，你肯定会从小说艺术中获益。

Similarly, I don't read fiction to study the art of fiction, but simply because I like stories. Yet there is a learning process going on.

同样，我读小说并非为了研究小说的艺术，而纯粹是因为我喜欢故事。

I heard not long ago of an eminent lawyer, who had paid a couple of hundred per annum for his son's instruction in the art of fiction — yea, the art of fiction — by a not very brilliant professor of that art.

不久前我听说一位著名的律师，他每年支付几百美元，请一位不是很杰出的教授教授他儿子的小说艺术——是的，小说的艺术。