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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 dif
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 dif
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2011-01-14
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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 writ-ing.
In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours a-lone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writ-er".
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 (自由栏目) writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apart-ment 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 I barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write, I had dreamed about for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering: What if?
I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure.
This is the Shadow Land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
"Shadow Land" in the last sentence refers to______.
选项
A、the wonderland oneoften dreams about
B、the bright future that one islooking forward to
C、the state of uncertaintybefore one’s final goal is reached
D、a world that exists only in one’s imagination
答案
C
解析
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