A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写
Write
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
写就是写就是写就是写就是写就是写就是写就是写就是写。
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
我不写草稿。我从头写到尾,写完就写完了。
I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
我喜欢写我关心的事情。唱你不喜欢的歌一点也不好玩。
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
你写作不是因为你想说什么,而是因为你有话要说。
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
刚开始的时候,我的短篇小说写得不好,因为我一直想写书。
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
一本小说通常要花我两年的时间。一年的研究、计划和梦想。然后是一年的写作时间。
When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.
当男人写浪漫小说时,女人就死了。当一个女人写一封邮件的时候,结尾都是整洁而甜蜜的。
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
像许多作家一样,我开始写故事,因为我没有太多的时间做其他事情。
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
我只知道我想写的东西比我可能有时间写的多得多。
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
当你为了挣钱不得不不停地打断工作时,写小说要花很长时间。
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
不,我并不是在写具体的演员,因为这可能会有点碍事。
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
我不能说我写作有任何社会目标。一个人写作是因为他热爱写作,真的。
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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 can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
我不会写字,不会画画,也不会作曲。
I work to eat, but I write to live.
我工作是为了吃饭,但我写作是为了生活。
There is tremendous interest in e-mail and what it will tell you when it comes to an information request because that is today's statement of record. No one writes memos and tucks them away in a desk anymore. Today it starts and ends with e-mail.
人们对电子邮件非常感兴趣,当涉及到信息请求时,它会告诉你什么,因为这就是今天的记录声明。再也没有人写备忘录然后把它们塞到桌子里了。今天,它以电子邮件开始和结束。
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
我不写任何形式的体裁。我对此不感兴趣。我总是试图做相反的事情。
I write books to find out about things.
我写书是为了了解事物。