A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写
Write
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
我不能给你写一个关于政治的字，因为你是一个女人。
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
我没必要这么说。我必须把它写下来。这已经够痛苦的了。
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
我要想上三、四十年才能写出来。
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
一位资深记者在写作前从来没有时间三思。
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
当我读这本书的时候，我不会退缩，这就是我想要的书。
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
能写格言的人不应该把时间浪费在随笔上。
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
诗歌能表达我无法表达的东西。我读了很多，但从来没有写过。
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
如果你喜欢，你可以写，别人也会喜欢。
One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
我想说的一件事是:我不喜欢受害者的故事，我也不写这些故事。
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
我写的所有东西都是私人的，这是我唯一知道的写作方法。
That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.
没错，我高中两次不及格，因为我不会写字。
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
作为小说家，我不太擅长研究;我主要凭经验写作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
我写短篇小说，还写剧本。
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
我写了一首歌要录制。在某种程度上是要被执行的，但肯定是要被记录的比被执行的要多，因为记录比表演持续的时间要长。
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
你可能不是每天都写得很好，但你总是可以编辑一个糟糕的页面。不能编辑空白页。
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
我一直在写作——我写诗，我喜欢写作。
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
有一件事，当你是一名演员时，你完成了一些事情，然后你不得不担心下一个演出是什么。当你是一个音乐家的时候，你总是可以写你自己的东西，而我现在正在为一张新专辑写新东西。
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
这就是每次你走进房间和一个新朋友一起写作的感觉。就像，天哪，我必须脱掉我的衣服，让他们看到我所有的缺点。