A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writers
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
作为一个演员，我们太依赖编剧了。
Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
作家是该死的骗子。每一个都是。
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
我喜欢的作家。我所有最好的朋友都是作家。
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。
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。
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
在麦卡锡时代的鼎盛时期，作家们受到了迫害。
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
我的感性使我倾向于独立写作的作家。
It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.
这是作者的工作，使它积极。我的工作就是把它变成现实。
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.
我给作家们最好的建议是让自己出生在一个有趣的地方。
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
不管怎么说，现在对年轻作家来说有点冒险。
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
有创造力的作家总是比他们所代表的事业更伟大。
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
无话可说的作家总是竭力用比喻来表达。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
我不认为，一般来说，人们成为作家是因为他们是班里非常优秀、非常酷、非常有吸引力的孩子。我会很诚实。这是我们对那些比我们好看得多、受欢迎得多的人的报复。我想我有点像那样。
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?
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
我认为所有的作家都是不同的。我和一些作家在一起;他们都是不同的。
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。
Writers should provoke disagreement.
作家应该挑起分歧。
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。