A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写
Write
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
试图只写人物特征，很快就会陷入困境;我不想让别人告诉我关于别人的事。
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
写一篇不需要四个人同意就能成为权威的文章是一件很好的事情。
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
我一直在写作，即使这意味着在酒店房间里录音。我在飞机上写作，在任何地方，任何时候，我有灵感或想法。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
我所写的都是发生在我和我认识的人身上的事情，我对他们了解得越多，他们就越有可能被写出来。
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
我觉得我必须写作。即使我从未发表过作品，我也知道我会继续写作，享受写作，体验挑战。
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
直到上了大学，我才开始写越来越多的东西，我意识到我的整个人生都是围绕着写作来安排的。
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
当人们问我写些什么时，我的回答是:‘人际关系的戏剧。他说，我的材料还没有快用完。
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
当我想到一个小点子的时候，我就会写短篇小说，我知道这个点子不是小说的一部分，它是独立的，应该被集中起来。
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
我写作是为了了解我的处境，理清现实的困惑，驱除内心的恶魔。但最重要的是，我写作是因为我爱它!
Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?
看看这个世界正在发生什么。每天都有一些令人兴奋或不安的事情要写。发生了这一切，我怎么能停下来?
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
决定用散文而不是诗歌写作更多的是由读者而不是作家做出的。几乎没有人对诗歌叙事感兴趣。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
一个人可以把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来，写一部科学的历史，把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来，写一部科学的历史，把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来，写一部科学的历史，把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来，写一部科学的历史。
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
首先你要成为一个作家，一个热爱写作的人。如果我不能旅行，我还会写作。
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。
If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
如果一个人发表文章，那么他就是在创造一个学习写作的公共记录。
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
你不能写教科书之外的人物，你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而，语言的含义和暗示，以及它的含意，都能吸引最高的智力。
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
不是知道如何写作让你变得有趣，而是你写了什么。