煮字疗饥 meaning in Chinese
“cook” characters in order to assuage hunger -- a scholar making a living by selling his writings; live on writing; have a writer's career
Examples
- Moreover , as a writer in a country that tends not to pay its authors very well , he faced a challenge immediately familiar to writers everywhere : how to make a living writing prose
另一件事，中国大陆作家待遇一向不是很好，千夫长也得面对各地作家都十分熟悉的一种挑战：如何煮字疗饥。