I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

  • -- George Woodcock 乔治·伍德科克

我不赞成踢掉梯子。我指的是我作为一个年轻作家所攀登的阶梯,那些不收费的小杂志,诸如此类的东西。

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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

许多年轻的作家会犯这样的错误,把一个贴好邮票、写好地址的信封放在信封里,信封足够大,可以把手稿寄回来。这对编辑来说诱惑太大了。

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

作为一名作家,我也有一定程度的自律性,旨在提高我的写作水平,这需要大量的学习和努力。

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

对我来说,仅仅登上杂志封面是不够的。我开始思考,做一件没有创造性投入的事情有什么价值?

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

我看到自己出现在一本杂志的封面上,我不认为它看起来像我。我的第一张照片是为一本男性杂志的封面拍摄的。