Iris Murdoch was regarded by many as a supremely good and serious writer.

艾里斯·默多克被许多人认为是一位极其出色而又严肃的作家。

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If you want to be a writer, a serious writer, your focus has to be on writing as well as you can and all those other things are incidental.

如果你想当一个作家，一个真正的作家，你的注意力必须尽量多的放在写作上，而其余的事情都不重要。

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John Updike, one of the most influential writers in contemporary American Literature. With his famous Rabbit Tetralogy, he became the most gifted and serious writer among his contemporaries.

约翰·厄普代克是美国当代文坛最具有影响力的作家之一，凭借《兔子四部曲》他声名鹊起，成为同代人中最富天赋的严肃作家。

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Yet she continued to write. Several magazines soon learned that she was a serious writer.

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This forced Mister Geisel to delay his dreams of becoming a serious writer.

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And no serious Southern writer was willing to describe a South that did not exist.

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This film has been several years in the making, with five solo films woven together to build up to it, and Whedon is not just a great filmmaker and TV show creator, he is in fact a comic book writer of serious talent as well, and he took his time working to write and rewrite this film to get it right.

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Blake Morrison, the writer, says that The Corrections has the satisfaction of a serious soap opera.

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Writer and director Ryan Perez says that although his Web movie faces serious competition from Hollywood, he's confident his take will shine through.

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