Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  • -- Iris Shun Ru Chang 虹膜顺如常

作为一名作家,你的首要职责是为取悦自己而写作。你对任何人都没有义务。

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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

职业评论家在工作中读了太多的坏书,以至于他们对引人入胜的语句产生了一种不健康的渴望。

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

没有作家需要为自己感到遗憾,如果他写作和享受它,即使他没有得到报酬。

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

老实说,我觉得我有责任以一种积极的方式利用我的名人地位。

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

作为一名作家,我要说的不仅仅是站在炒锅后面。