A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writers
Writers live twice.
作家住两次。
Writers speak stench.
作家说恶臭。
Writer speaks a stench.
作家说话臭气熏天。
Yeah, writers do hate writing.
是的，作家讨厌写作。
Good writers are of necessity rare.
优秀的作家是难得的。
Writers should provoke disagreement.
作家应该挑起分歧。
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
作为作家，我们的工作就是做好我们的工作。
It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
这是每个作家都需要的:一张躺椅。
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
作家太神经质，永远不会快乐。
Writers are extremely awesome entertainers.
作家是非常棒的艺人。
Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
作家是出版业的极端分子。
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
我的作家房间里没有人可以穿运动裤。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.
目前，电子书似乎确实威胁到了作家的生计，因为作家以电子书的形式获得报酬的方式还悬而未决。
Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.
没有图书馆和档案，历史小说作家就会消失。
The thing writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
作家最擅长的事情就是找到避免写作的方法。
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
我已经告诉过几位作家这一点，并且，再一次，我回到它，但如果你想让上帝微笑，告诉他你的计划。
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.
当一个国家强大时……它接受作者的任何悲观论调。
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
写小说是我做过的最困难的事情，包括挖灌溉渠。