I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

  • -- Cynthia Ozick 辛西娅·奥齐克

我想做我自己,做我生来要做的——不是要有一个“职业”,而是要成为一个直截了当、明显无误的动物,一个作家。

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I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

我没有职业抱负方面的计划。我唯一的职业抱负就是和那些能把你培养成人并提高你表现的人一起工作。他们会让你知道你不知道的事情,带你去你可能不会去的地方。

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。

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

我在华纳兄弟的职业生涯只有一个音乐短片。我穿着熊皮到处跑。很别致的。

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

我认为自己是一个现实主义作家,而不是肥皂剧或情节剧的创作者。