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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 diff
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 diff
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2010-10-14
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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 for tune 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.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What fie. I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
The passage is meant to ______.
选项
A、warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience
B、advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer
C、show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame
D、encourage young people to pursue a writing career
答案
A
解析
文章主题题型。依据文章第一段开头两句“Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer,I always encourage such people.But I also explain that there’s big difference between being a writer“and writing.”作者告诫年轻人,“成为作家”和“写作”之间存在极大的差异。接着在第二段、第三段,作者用亲身经历说明:成为成功作家必须忍受困扰,孤独,克服困
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