If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda.It's fatal for a fiction writer.

如果带着某种想法去写作，那说的话都是冠冕堂皇，这对一个小说家来说是致命的。

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The writer must take his material direct from real life.

作家必须直接从现实生活中摄取素材。

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Hemingway is another American writer who has striven, at some cost, to preserve the truth of direct experience.

海明威是另一个不惜任何牺牲竭力想忠实地描写亲身经验的美国作家。

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To read them is to make the belated acquaintance of a critic who at his best was worthy of direct comparison with George Orwell, the writer whom he most closely resembled.

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