For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

对于几乎所有选择成为作家的人来说,因为很少有作家能够从他们的工作中获得相当于一般牙医或会计师的收入。

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Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

演戏一直都在,这是真的。但在很长一段时间里,在我十几岁的时候,我对此并不确定——不是因为我不喜欢它,而是我不想让人们认为我没有得到它。

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

我们重读的书和读不完的书的清单比书本身的相对价值更能说明我们自己。

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

我想我必须展示我所有的东西,我几乎用我的快速球撕裂了看台的木板。

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

我以各种可怕的方式谋生——当看门人、编辑、心理治疗师。

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

如果我想让大多数人对我做他们对自己做的事,那我就该死了。

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

人们总是问我,‘你小时候有趣吗?“不,我是会计。

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

过去和未来一样,都是想象的产物。