You've had a hard life. That hard life, you think, is really what made you into the writer you are.

你的生活很艰难，你觉得正是那种艰难让你成为了作家。

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Even if they are writer or an artist or whatever you are doing, I think it's a very inspiring place.

即使他们是作家或艺术家，无论你从事什么行业，我想这都是一个非常启发人心的地方。

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And when you come to read it, what you're putting yourself in my position, as it were, and you are partaking of precisely the same activity as I "the first writer-reader" was.

而当你阅读时，换句话说，当你代替了我的角色时，你的阅读活动其实和我这个,第一个作者与读者的活动相同。

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Imagine that you are a writer.

假象你是作家。

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