1. The old gentleman swivelled his eyes on him like opera glasses and went on coughing: hack, hack, hack: the vocal chords dry as straw. 老人仔细打量着他，恨不得用观剧镜将他看个通透。接着又“咳，咳，咳”地咳嗽起来，嗓音干涩如稻草。
2. The small writer may have much extension in space, the great writer must have it also in time. 小作家可能会不断扩大空间，大作家却不仅扩大空间也延伸时间。
3. The writer is a Specialist Writer of Lianhe Zaobao. Translated by Yap Gee Poh. 作者是联合早报的一位专栏作家。翻译：叶琦保。
4. "A writer's worst enemy is another writer, " he remarked ungraciously and accurately somewhat later. “一个作家最大的敌人就是其它作家，”后来他不友好然而又很精准地说道。
5. Canadian female writer Margaret Atwood is a well-known poet, novelist and story-writer in contemporary literary world. 加拿大女作家玛格丽特
