A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
当你作为一名作家走红时，你必须期待饶舌歌手的出现。
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。
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。
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
我就是喜欢作家。也许是因为我不是个作家。
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
作家和旅行者都对自己的目的地着迷。
All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
今天我真正想做的就是去书店，喝咖啡和读书。
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
作家就像一棵豆科植物——他有他的小日子，然后变得有弦。
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
我已经习惯了和作家一起工作，所以我的主要职业是发展。
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
好作家向其他作家学习。伟大的作家直接剽窃他们的作品。
(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
(写作)-把裤子的座位贴在椅子上的艺术。
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
我是一个漫画作家，这意味着我可以杀龙射牛。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
这就是我成为一名作家的原因之一——我从来没有那么多朋友。我会读很多书，听音乐。这就是我的生活。
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
作家应该用眼睛写作，画家应该用耳朵作画。
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。
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
如果我留在智利，我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中，在家庭中，在人们期望我成为的那个人里。
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
如果你想成为一名作家，你首先必须做两件事:大量阅读和大量写作。据我所知，这两件事是无法回避的，没有捷径可走。
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.
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。