Writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.

写作是一门手艺，而不是艺术，一个将手艺生疏归咎于没有灵感光顾的人不过是在愚弄自己。

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After graduating he moved to London and began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories. His inspiration for the character came from one of his professors at university.

毕业后，他移居伦敦，开始写作福尔摩斯故事系列，故事中的人物原型是他大学时代的一位教授。

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His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.

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Mr Kreckeler said a plan in the 1970s to turn the site into a multi-storey car park was the inspiration for writing his book, called The Brothers Burial Ground, 1719 - 1948.

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Eliot, famed for epic poem The Waste Land as well as writing the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, had written to his friend Jacob Isaacs.

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