"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？”

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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。

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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。

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Another black writer dismissed Ellison because Ellison demanded that writing skills must be learned before political ideas can be expressed.

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The guy who wrote 2 Peter--again,not really Peter, but a writer writing in Peter's name--talked about Paul's letters as if--and he calls them scripture.

写彼得后书的人同样也不是彼得，他以彼得的名写信，谈到保罗的书信时,他把它们称为圣典。

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You said you're a writer. How did you start writing?

你说你是作家。你是怎么开始写作的？

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Andrew McCarthy plays David, an American reporter and would-be fiction writer secretly writing a novel on the Red Brigades while working for an English-language newspaper in Rome.

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