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。
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
正如许多政治作家所指出的，对政治平等的承诺并不是说人们都是克隆人。
Time really has gone by fast. I don't know if your path is pre-written or what, but it's crazy how one thing just leads to another.
时间过得真快。我不知道你的人生道路是否已经预先写好了，但一件事会导致另一件事，这太疯狂了。
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
作家不是凭空而来的。作家证人。我们需要作家的原因是因为我们需要这个恐怖世纪的目击者。
Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.
每次我听到作家们谈论“缪斯女神”，我就想狠狠地打他们一巴掌。这是一份工作。做你的工作。
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。
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.
当然，作家思考这些事情的方式几乎肯定会受到他们自己文化背景的影响，而且很难否认，不管出于什么原因，很多科幻作家都来自英美或欧洲背景。