For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

对于几乎所有选择成为作家的人来说,因为很少有作家能够从他们的工作中获得相当于一般牙医或会计师的收入。

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There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

有一个关于我是谁的想法永远投射在我身上,然后我几乎觉得我必须完成这个角色。即使事情从我嘴里说出来,我也要确保我说的是我真正想说的。

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

甲壳虫乐队所做的几乎每件事都很棒,很难再改进了。他们是我们的巴赫。解决这个问题的方法可能是让它尽可能简单。

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

人们总是问我,‘你小时候有趣吗?“不,我是会计。

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

上次我在牙买加的时候,我资助一位老师在孤儿院教书。

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

你可以成为一名优秀的记者,而不是脱口秀主持人。

He treated me like something he owned not something he'd earned.

他待我就像他拥有一样,而不是他挣来的。