A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写
Write
I’d rather write about this world than live in it and I’d rather play music all day and read and wander around in bookstores and watch humans but not be one of them.
我宁愿写关于这个世界的东西，也不愿生活在这个世界里。我宁愿整天听音乐，读书，在书店里闲逛，看人类，但不愿成为他们中的一员。
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
我可以尝试写一本小说。我认为无论你写什么，都需要对自己诚实，你必须把自己从日常生活的漩涡中拉出来。
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
但我只能写缪斯女神允许我写的东西。我不能选择，我只能做我被赋予的，当我感到接近具体的诗歌时，我感到高兴——仍然。
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
我过去常常告诉我的写作学生，他们必须写他们希望能找到的书，因为这样他们渴望和渴望的书就会存在。
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
我试图写一本好小说。无论是文学还是文学，都将由各个时代来决定，而不是由我，也不是由世界各地的一群评论家来决定。
I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.
我不听别人怎么说我，也不读他们怎么写我。人们可以拿我和任何人做比较，但我不担心。
I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.
我只是坐下来想，我今天要写一首歌，我要试一试。所以我把它像其他东西一样粘在磁带上。那只是另一首歌。
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
现在，我不指望我写的东西能改变什么。我想我现在写作只是作为一个证人。事情就是这样。这就是我们所做的。这是我们所允许的。
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
我告诉学生们，当一个场景是如此痛苦，他们几乎无法让自己把它写下来的时候，他们就会知道他们正在到达某个地方。作家必须抽血。
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.
与你的精神沟通是最有效和最基本的沟通。把它写下来。当你写下对精神的印象时，你会得到更多。
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。
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!
正常情况下，当我们写歌的时候，我们想做一个封面，但从来没有一个封面唱片。对我们来说，这是一个概念。我们不想要一个概念!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.
但我现在不怎么写了，因为太痛苦了。
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
给我一个英雄，我就给你写一个悲剧。
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
如果你想写，就写吧。这是第一条规则。把它寄给，寄给那些能够发表它的人。别寄给我。不要把它展示给你的配偶，或你的另一半，或你的父母，或其他人。他们不会出版的。
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
铭记在心:每一天都是一年中最美好的日子。
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解，只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍，却无话可说。