A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写
Write
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
一个人总是在最歇斯底里的时候写喜剧。
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
试着写诗,房间里至少有一个人会讨厌。
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
我写得很短,文字紧扣着叙述的主线。
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。
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
我唯一的习惯就是坐下来写,每天写。
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
重要的不是你的铅笔有多大;这是你写名字的方式。
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
如果你写歌,你就知道它们的发音。
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
广大的人类永远不应该学会读书写字。
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
写小说最好的方法是在自己背后写。
We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
我们本可以做得更多,但我总是忘记写歌。
For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.
对我来说,写作是一个括号,在这里我可以理解生活。
I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
我写它是为了让它从我身上消失。我写它不是为了记住它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
很难写出好的情节,很难。