[9급 지방직 영어 2023년 16번]

I once took a course in short-story writing and during that course a renowned editor of a leading magazine talked to our class. ① He said he could pick up any one of the dozens of stories that came to his desk every day and after reading a few paragraphs he could feel whether or not the author liked people. ② “If the author doesn’t like people,” he said, “people won’t like his or her stories.” ③ The editor kept stressing the importance of being interested in people during his talk on fiction writing. ④ Thurston, a great magician, said that every time he went on stage he said to himself, “I am grateful because I’m successful.” At the end of the talk, he concluded, “Let me tell you again. You have to be interested in people if you want to be a successful writer of stories.”