1. Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written.
    有时，一个作家一本书写完了，但兴奋仍不消散。

2. 2. Why did the writer choose not to take her gun along with her since she has her gun loaded?
    还没有走到门口，我觉得我听到一个声音在说， "钱。" 在我打开门之前我又听到了一个声音，然后我转过身，看到了那个持枪的人。

3. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories.
    乔治年轻时学过医，然而，他后来没当上医生，却成了一位成功的侦探小说作家。

4. Charles Dickens was a well known writer.
    查尔斯・狄更斯是一位著名的作家。

5. Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair.
    作家如此行事当然被人误解。他还不如给人讲一个犯罪案件或一个恋爱故事。

6. 4. Why is it that the writer's imagined robber is always a man or especially a black man?
    我很生气，因为我受到了威胁，因为有人为了得到我口袋里的钱而危及着我的生命。

7. Teachers gave consistently lower grades on essays apparently written by boys named Elmer and Hubert than they awarded to the same papers when the writer's names were given as Michael and David.
    教师老是给卷上名字为埃尔默和休伯特的男孩写的文章打较低的分数, 实际这是同样的两份卷子。

8. 1. What is the purpose for the writer to have a loaded gun since she is in favor of gun control?
    以前我认为自己不相信暴力，我自己也不粗暴，所以我不会受到暴力的侵袭。我还认为我对人性本善的信念会使这一假想成为现实。

9. 1. What could make the writer sense that something was about to happen at this moment?
    等轮到我时，我上前走到柜台边，开口和银行办事员说话。可他脸上有种很奇怪的表情--一种茫然的眼神。开始我以为他是在看我，后来才意识到他是在朝我的肩膀后面看。

10. It disheartens any writer to get rejection slips.
    任何作者收到退稿单都会泄气。