A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writers
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?
Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
作家们会把剧本交给我，如果我非常喜欢一个剧本，并把它交给杂志编辑，我就知道这个故事是好是坏。
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
嗯，至少到目前为止，我自己的想法总是比其他作家的想法更重要。只要这口井不干涸，我想情况就会是这样。
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。
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.
我认为我是一个很好的作家，但我没有什么可写的。我想去外面的世界，有一些冒险，然后写他们。
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
它的层数比洋葱还多。这些作家是认真的。每个人都有一个等级。你的专业可以是天体力学，里面会有天体力学的笑话。
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。
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
有时我听一些非常聪明的作家写的歌，他们认为世界是一个文明的地方，人们遵循一定的礼节，但我不这么认为。我自己的经验告诉我，生活不是那样的。
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。
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。
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。
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
我从小就想成为一名作家，尽管这似乎不太可能，因为我没有显示出真正的才华。但我坚持了下来，最终找到了自己的那排锄头。对其他作家作品的无知使我不会灰心丧气，我的阅读量也不如一般的公共汽车司机。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
写作的孤独也是相当可怕的。这是非常接近疯狂，一个人只是消失了一天，失去了联系。
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。
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。