many a young person tells me翻譯

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer.I always encourage such people,but I also explain that there's a big difference between"being a writer"and writing.In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame,not the long hours alone at a typewriter."You've got to want to write,"I say to them,"not want to be a writer."

The reality is that writing is a lonely,private and poor-paying affair.For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded.When I left a 20-year career in the U.S.Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿人),I had no prospects at all.What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building.It didn't even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom.I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.