A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
剧作家
Playwright
I'm not a playwright.
我不是剧作家。
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
没有剧作家的演员就像没有油炸圈饼的洞。
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
你不能以剧作家的身份谋生。你勉强过得去。
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
剧作家生活在一个被占领的国家。如果你不能那样生活，那就别再呆在这里了。
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
很长一段时间，我同时想到了两件事，一是我实际上是一个优秀的剧作家，二是下次我写剧本的时候，我就会被人认为是一个一无是处的人。
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
模仿的本能产生了演员;通过模仿获得快乐的欲望造就了剧作家;为了给这种乐趣提供足够的人物塑造和令人难忘的对话，产生了戏剧文学。