A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
一个真正的朋友和一个好作家是不常见的。
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
你不可能成为一个伟大的作家，在一个商店里的文字出售在十和二十。
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。
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
当一个作家心中有了家，他的心就必须与家保持微妙的距离。
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
我不认为自己是导演或作家。我认为我自己是一个电影人。
I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
我认为我是一名作家，但在职业上，我觉得自己很受吸引，也很适合导演。
If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.
如果你想成为一个更好的作家，你必须写作。但你也必须阅读。
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
有些人想成为作家，因为他们喜欢写作。他们照顾。
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
从长远来看，第一批作家是第一位的，其余的都是在选集里。
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
作家也必须如此，他的作品应该与粗俗的人一起，具有粗俗的风格。
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
我给你们这些作家付了一大笔钱，为了什么?你所要做的就是换词。
The role of a writer is not to say, what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
作家的角色不是说我们都能说什么，而是我们不能说什么。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.
我不是一个伟大的笑话作家，这对于一个喜剧演员来说很奇怪，但我不是。
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
任何名符其实的作家都是要么专注于一件事，要么专注于另一件事。
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。