A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

严肃的作家不应与严肃的作家混为一谈。一个严肃的作家可能是一只鹰,一只秃鹰,甚至一只罂粟花,但一个严肃的作家总是一只血腥的猫头鹰。

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

科幻小说作家,我很抱歉地说,真的什么都不知道。我们不能谈论科学,因为我们对科学的知识是有限的和非官方的,通常我们的小说是可怕的。

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

我从一个有艺术天赋的男孩开始……作为一个视觉艺术家…我想这就是我现在的样子,在我十几岁的时候,我开始阅读严肃的文学作品。

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

自由作家是一个按稿酬、按词或也许是这样的人。

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

后果是严重的,他们会带你去的地方。