还从没有一个出版商主动来与我接洽，这种屈尊有点让我受宠若惊。 I had never been spontaneously approached by a publisher and such condescension rather turned my head.
"要找个出版商真是比上天还难，" 韦恩说。 "你要是没有出版过东西，那就别想找到代理商，而你要出版东西，又非找个代理商不行。" "Getting an agent is Catch-22, " Wayne says. "You get one unless you're published and you need one to get published."
出版商付给他雇佣的文人很低的费用。 The publisher paid his hacks low.
