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。
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
有些作家出奇地不懂音乐。我不明白。我不明白。对我来说，音乐是必不可少的。我做得好的时候总是放着音乐。写作和音乐是两种不同的媒介，但是音乐短语可以给你带来你从未想过的句子。
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
作家和出版商之间的关系当然非常奇怪，而且一直在变化，就像跷跷板一样。
Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
作家是绝望的人，当他们不再绝望时，他们也就不再是作家了。
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
作家们很善于从各处找出他们所需要的东西。
For the sake of a few fine imaginative or domestic passages, are we to be bullied into a certain philosophy engendered in the whims of an egotist.
为了几段美好的想象或家庭生活的篇章，我们会被逼入一种由自我中心主义者的一时冲动所产生的哲学吗?
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
但我过去是，现在仍然是，一个狂热的读者，所以当我刚开始的时候，我选择拍摄这个国家许多伟大的作家，试图以此谋生。