So you want to be a writer? Well my advice is, don't give up the day job.
这么说你想成为一个作家了？得了，我劝你不要放弃老本行。
A writer is suing director Steven Spielberg for allegedly stealing his film idea.
一个作家正在控告史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格导演剽窃了他的电影创意。
Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer.
迟早大多数作家最终都会写书诉说当一名作家的苦恼。
He knows his limitations as a writer.
他知道自己作为一个作家的局限性。
If you're a writer, that means—above all writing.
如果你是一名作家，那意味着，首要的是写作。
Harlan Coben believes that if you're a writer, you'll find the time.
哈兰·科本认为，如果你是一名作家，那你就会腾出时间来写作。
It demands that the reader almost become a writer and fill in the gaps.
它要求读者几乎成为一个作家然后填补空白。
If you can't find the time, then writing isn't a priority and you're not a writer.
如果你腾不出时间，那么写作就不是你的优先项，你也就不是一名作家。
If a writer does not go deep among the masses, he cannot expect to turn out good works.
当作家而不深入群众，就不会写出好作品来。
"Now they say that Currer Bell is a writer who understands women very well!" She laughed again.
“现在他们说柯勒·贝尔是一位非常了解女性的作家！”她又笑了起来。
It's said that clichés are the worst sin a writer can commit, but to an oral bard, they were essential.
人们常说，陈词滥调是作家可能犯下的最严重的错误，但对于一个口头吟游诗人来说，它们是必不可少的。
You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage.
你可能认为任何使作者把文字放到页面上的工具都是一种优势。
You may think you're not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer.
你可能会认为你不太擅长学校的某些科目，或者你不可能成为一名作家。
It does so by pointing out affinities between Austen and a writer with whom she has not commonly been associated, John Keats.
它通过指出奥斯汀和一个通常不与她有联系的作家约翰·济慈之间的密切关系来做到这一点。
But very often, a writer can appear to stand aside, and this detachment makes people feel: there's a bit of ice in the heart.
但通常情况下，一个作家会表现得置身事外，这种疏离感会让人觉得内心冰冷。
A writer hired Brenner to take photographs for a children's book about the dolphin show at an amusement park in nearby Nokomis.
一个作家雇佣Brenner为一本儿童读物拍摄位于诺克米斯附近的游乐场里的海豚表演的照片。
In the nineteenth century, Horatio Alger, a writer of fiction for young boys, became American's best-selling author with rags-to-riches tales.
在19世纪，读者受众为年轻男孩的小说作家霍雷肖·阿尔杰凭借讲述白手起家的故事成为美国最畅销作家。
A writer wrote down all the stories that Marco told him in a book called The Description of the World, which became one of the best selling books in Europe.
一位作家把马可告诉他的所有故事都写在了一本叫做《世界描述》的书里，这本书成了欧洲最畅销的书之一。
You may think you're not very good at some school subjects, or that it's impossible for you to become a writer. Those kinds of ideas stop you from realizing your dream.
你可能会认为你在学校的某些科目上不是很擅长，或者你不可能成为一名作家。这些想法阻止了你实现你的梦想。
The inner life of a writer often says more than most readers can know; the mind of a reader can discover truths that go beyond the intent or perhaps even the comprehension of the writer.
一个作家的内心生活往往比大多数读者所能知道的更多；读者的思想能够发现超越作者意图之外的真理，甚至有可能理解作者。
"I'm a writer."—"You don't say. What kind of book are you writing?"
“我是个作家。”—“真的吗，你在写什么样的书呢？”
A writer spends many hours going over and over a scene—changing a phrase here, a word there.
作家花许多个小时反复润色一个场景—这儿改个短语，那儿改个单词。
He was also a writer of beautiful stories, some of which are collaborations with his fiancée.
他也撰写优美的故事，有些是和他的未婚妻合作的成果。
现在他成为了一名作家。
My editor Toni, who is also a writer, has edited several history books.
我的编辑托妮也是一位作家，她编辑过几本历史书。
You will surely realize your dream of being a writer unless you give it up halfway.
除非你不半途而废，否则你一定会实现当作家的梦想。
The writer describes his happy early life on a small farm, and how travelling around the countryside helped him to become a writer.
作者描述了他早年间在一家小农场的幸福生活，以及周游乡村对他成为作家所起到的帮助。
As a writer says, future geniuses come from those with "intelligence, creativity, perseverance, and simple good fortune, who are able to change the world".
正如一位作家所说，未来的天才来自那些“拥有智慧、创造力、毅力和一点点好运，能够改变世界”的人。
It helped me understand that I could be a writer without being a novelist or a journalist.
它让我明白，即使我不是小说家或记者，我也可以成为一名作家。
CCTV reporter Dong Qian once said to him, "I always fell that a writer is like a hen, and his works are like eggs."
中央电视台记者董谦曾对他说：“我总觉得作家就像母鸡，他的作品就像鸡蛋。”
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