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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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

但它也变成了一种经历,或者说,被这种幽默所吸引的作家的经历。他们都是来自于自己生活中同样经历的男人或女人。

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?

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

一个摄影师背后没有杂志,就像一个农民没有田地。

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

作家必须教育自己,最卑鄙的事情莫过于害怕。