A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
尝试
Trying
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
我想我可能就是那个你可以指望一年敲你一两次门，想卖给你一些愚蠢东西的邻居。
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
人们必须团结起来，一起工作。我厌倦了白人对我们施加的那种压迫，现在仍在试图施加这种压迫。
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
但是，我尽量不愤世嫉俗，我不想成为那种有很好的机会却错失了的人。发生在我身上的事真的很神奇。
I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.
我试着让每一件事都尽可能地令人毛骨悚然。我的反应和你一样。我也有同感。医院的场景，那个过程是如此真实。
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
我试着尽可能地保持冷静，过好每一天，但当现实来临，我感到一切:焦虑、兴奋、紧张、压力和快乐。
I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.
我总是试图在尽我最大的努力和成为一个了不起的父母之间找到平衡。我真的意识到这是一片混乱——但这是快乐的混乱。
Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.
有时候，我担心自己太沉迷于自己的线条令人作呕的油滑，而我所要做的就是尽可能地把它弄清楚。
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
我把时间花在研究艺术上。我从小就相信，处理信息的方法就是把它变成艺术。这就是我的生活。
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
我不能满足于把我所有的想象力都用在音乐上，尤其是当音乐不再像过去那样被当作一种艺术形式来欣赏的时候。
Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.
每一个类人猿都有非常不同的体型，所以除了试图定义跨物种的阶级，还有一个明确的尝试，就是给每个类人猿穿上不同风格的衣服。
I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
我不打算深入探讨作者的技巧或者他试图描述的东西，因为这不公平。我只能说，我的感觉是试图被描绘在那里。
I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.
我是一个苦苦挣扎的作家。一个中年男人带着两个小孩，我只是想谋生。所以买这本书吧，否则我的孩子们将不得不去寄养。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
这有点像试图从曲线中画出直线，但是涉及到形状，如果你喜欢的话，这些形状决定了这些曲线是什么，如果你喜欢的话，两个独立的部分之间的差异创造了第三个过渡部分。
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
我不记得有什么时候我不把事情写在纸上。
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
在写文学小说时，你是在帮助自己。读者阅读文学小说不仅仅是为了娱乐，而是因为他们觉得会有别的事情发生;这种经历会让他们超越自我，向他们展示一些他们从未见过的东西。
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
勇气是发现自己可能不会成功，当你知道自己可能会失败时，仍然去尝试。
If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
如果你不犯错，你就没有真正地去尝试。
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
当我开始写作的时候，我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中，这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。