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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

  • -- Christopher James Hampton 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·汉普顿

问一个作家对评论家的看法就像问灯柱对狗的感觉一样。

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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.

我喜欢和男演员一起工作，我认为有一种趋势，就是写一些非常有趣的角色，这些角色只会和男人一起工作，在男人的世界里，他们必须处理这些问题，这创造了很多有趣的故事情节。对我来说，这是一种环境，但我绝对喜欢它。

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

一本书好的部分可能只是一个作家偶然听到的，也可能是他整个该死的生活的毁灭，而其中的一部分和另一部分一样好。

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Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.

每个人都认为你可以做一个好人，但这不是获奖项目所做的。获奖项目都有自己的计划。

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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

我倾向于读更多的非小说类书籍，真的，因为当我写作的时候，我不喜欢读其他的小说。

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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

真正的野蛮人是那些认为一切都野蛮的人，除了自己的品味和偏见。

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When things feel like they're not working out,  focus on what's working right.

当事情感觉不顺利时，把注意力集中在正确的事情上。

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I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

我是一名教师和作家。这就是我要做的。

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I don't want my writing to be recognized.

我不希望我的作品被人认出来。

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