A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
嗯，你知道，作家只是吸收新的经验——我们就像新鲜事物的真空吸尘器。
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
作家从来没有假期。对于一个作家来说，生活要么是写作，要么是思考写作。
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
作为一名侦探小说的职业作家，我与棒球运动员们打成一片。我喜欢球类运动。
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
在剧院里，角色们必须切断作家的脐带，用自己的声音说话。
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
每个人都需要一两个温暖的敌人，让他免于思想活动部位的锈蚀。
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
作家也许声名狼藉，无可救药，或早衰或晚兴，但他们敢于单干。
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
一位女士写信给我，告诉我她多么想看到我被殴打，濒临死亡，诸如此类的事情。
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
对于一个作家来说，生命总是太短而不能写作。我将尽我最大的努力在我的余生。
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
我看得出来，作为一个作家，当你在写一首歌的时候，沿着低音线走是一个很受欢迎的举动。
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
问一个作家对评论家的看法就像问灯柱对狗的感觉一样。
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.
作为一个不吃、不喝、不抽烟的客人，你有很多不足之处，但作为一个作家，你是我的女孩。
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
我不想当导演和编剧，就像我不想当编剧和导演一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
一本书好的部分可能只是一个作家偶然听到的，也可能是他整个该死的生活的毁灭，而其中的一部分和另一部分一样好。
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.
我不是一个伟大的笑话作家，这对于一个喜剧演员来说很奇怪，但我不是。
When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.
当我写一本书的时候，我把它变成我能写的最好的书。
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
作家不可能被驯服，变得文明，甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室，在那里他可以独自忍受急性期，食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
一个真正的朋友和一个好作家是不常见的。
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
作家的工作是讲真话。