When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  • -- Irvine Welsh 威尔士

当我第一次开始写作时,是通过音乐。我会想出一些歌曲的创意,然后把它们变成故事,再把它们变成小说。我对音乐有偏见。

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If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

如果你问某人是否喜欢音乐,他们会奇怪地看着你。这似乎是一个普遍的假定。比如问别人是否喜欢呼吸。就像呼吸一样。或空气,而。内外流动。一个我们的生活被设定在其中的矩阵。

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

如果我能在五分钟内把故事从头到尾讲完,我就准备开始写了。在这五分钟里,它是一个常数。

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

我来放音乐,然后打开麦克风,按播放,录音,唱歌。不管结果是什么,都是旋律。

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

我从来没有写过一首我知道结局的诗。写诗就是发现。

I still remember how we started talking.

我还记得我们是如何开始交谈的。

What writing does is to reveal.

写作的作用是揭示。