上世纪70年代,美国缅因州有个从事烫衣工作的年轻人,从小酷爱写作,并且渴望能成为一名作家,虽然他住在烫衣厂的简陋宿舍里,但依旧坚持着写作。每天夜里,同事们都睡觉了,可他却还趴在床上亮着手电筒写作,手电筒没电了,他就搬两张板凳放在宿舍的走廊上写,那里有微弱的灯光;周末,同事们都出去旅游或逛街,他却依旧待在宿舍里写作。他的薪水全部都用来买纸笔和支付邮寄稿子的费用,然而他的作品从未得到过出版社 In the 1970s, a young man in ironing work in Maine, United States, was passionate about writing and eager to become a writer. Although he lived in a junior dormitory in a ironing factory, he still insisted on writing. Every night, his colleagues were asleep, but he was still lying on his bed with his flashlight writing. The flashlight was dead, and he moved two of his benches to write down the hallway of the dorm, where there was faint light. On weekends, colleagues Have to go out for travel or shopping, he still stayed in the dorm writing. His salary was all used to buy pen and paper and pay the cost of mailing manuscripts, but his work had never been published in a publishing house