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I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石，然后再把它凿开，才能找到大理石中的人物。

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Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

首先，这是一门生意，也是一门艰难的生意，你必须有能力挺过所有的挫折所有的失败让这门生意变得很糟糕，在我看来，它一年比一年糟糕。

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I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

我的意思是，刚开始的时候，我是按小时计费的，就像一个心理医生，因为你可以和别人坐在一起工作。但大多数情况下，如果是现场演出，通常都是买断。固定费用。

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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

我过去工作时间很长。然后我开始意识到我在下午写的东西，我通常都扔掉了。所以我比以前更早辞职了。

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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

写死去的白人男性似乎在学术界不受欢迎。

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