A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
喜剧演员是真正的作家，他们身边没有钢笔和铅笔，但他们即兴发挥。
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
同样的工具，使任何优秀的作家，加上一个愉快的意愿暂停信仰。
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
纸和墨水都是垃圾，如果我找不到作者真正的想法。
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
作家，当他也是一个艺术家，是一个承认别人不敢揭露的人。
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
米勒并不是真正的作家，而是一个喋喋不休的人，有人给了他一台打字机。
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。
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
我不是那种已经写了很多书的学术研究的作家。
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
作家的责任是挖掘出创作他的人的经验。
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before.
对于一个作家来说，没有什么比重复他以前说过的话更有吸引力的了。
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
没有作家需要为自己感到遗憾，如果他写作和享受它，即使他没有得到报酬。
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。
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
如果每个角色都用同样的声音说话，对一个没有经验的作家来说，这简直是天经地义。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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.
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。
The writer works in a lonely way.
这位作家以孤独的方式工作。
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
信件必须通过两项测试才能被归类为优秀:它们必须同时表达写信人和收信人的个性。
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
每个作家都是上一代人的作家。
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
作家和政治家是天生的对手。这两个群体都试图按照自己的形象创造世界;他们为同一领土而战。