A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
众所周知，演员是糟糕的作家。
The head writer loves that my character is a boor.
主笔喜欢我的角色是个乡巴佬。
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
每个作家都是上一代人的作家。
I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
作为一个作家和一个人，我学到了很多。
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
我是一个如饥似渴的作家，正如我是一个读者一样。
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
每当我写作时，我总是想着读者。
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
职业作家是一个没有放弃的业余作家。
I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
作为一名作家，我要说的不仅仅是站在炒锅后面。
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
我是幸运的作家之一:情节对我来说很容易。
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
我是一名教师和作家。这就是我要做的。
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
我不认为自己是个作家;我是一个讲故事的人。
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
作家的世界是一个内在的世界，一个心灵的世界。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
作者的贪婪令人震惊。在另一种意义上，他想要，或者似乎想要，所有的东西，几乎所有的人，但同时，他不需要任何人。
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
作家应具有诗人的精确性和科学家的想象力。
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.
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。
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
作家不可能被驯服，变得文明，甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室，在那里他可以独自忍受急性期，食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的，因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达，去触及，去表达我们内心的某种东西，去理解他人。
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
我本可以成为一名作家。我做过理发师。我本可以坚持下去的。