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Write
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
你拥有的唯一一样东西是别人没有的，那就是你自己。你的声音，你的思想，你的故事，你的愿景。所以，写作、画画、建造、玩耍、跳舞，只有你才能这样生活。
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.
后来有人建议我写关于战争的文章，我说我对战争一无所知。我一点也不懂。我不知道该怎么写。
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
习惯上，我可能会把这种制度化的消遣写得好像它存在于一般的环境之外，但我的故事不适合这样的处理。
I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.
我知道我写的东西对很多人来说似乎是异国情调，但对我来说却不是。我把车停在一个旧的贸易站前，看见几个上了年纪的纳瓦霍人坐在长凳上。我感觉就像在家里一样。
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。
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。
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
我的工作也是，跟上流行文化和孩子们喜欢什么，因为你不想听起来像一个老人试图为孩子们写作。我花了很多时间监视他们。
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.
我知道在我的教堂里，很多时候我们都是照着赞美诗唱的，随着年龄的增长，我们开始随着时间而改变。我可以诚实地说，我从未受影响为教会写作。
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
我没有什么特别的仪式，但我不会写小说，除非我有几个小时的时间。对我来说，我需要一段时间来适应一种真正集中注意力的模式。
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
我年轻的时候会在速写本上画一些我生活中发生的事情然后在旁边写一些关于发生了什么或者故事的东西。
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
我在太空的工作是观察和写日记。我还将给地球上的学生上一堂关于太空生活和航天飞机的课并进行实验。
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
所以当我写人物、情景和关系时，我试着利用我对世界的了解，尽管它是有限的，以及我从朋友那里听到的和亲戚们看到的。
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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。
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
我用左手写字和切东西，其他的都用右手，包括用刀吃饭。
I write books to find out about things.
我写书是为了了解事物。
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
当我坐下来写一首歌的时候，这是一种即兴创作，但是我把它正式化了一点，让它进入录音室，当我走到麦克风前的时候，我对我要做什么有一个模糊的概念。
Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.
我写的每一个单词都让我离找到正确的单词更近了一步。
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。