A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
我怎么告诉别人我是谁?不是作家，唯一的办法就是唱一些反映我观点的歌。
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
我不认为有什么特别的书让我想写。他们都做到了。我一直想写作。
I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it.
我从小就知道什么是死亡。我唯一的遗憾是不能把它写下来。
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
写小说的时候，作者应该创造活生生的人;人们不要字符。一个人物是一幅漫画。
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
成功孕育了大量的作品，令人惊讶的是城里有那么多年轻的作家、艺术家和音乐家。
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
作家毕竟只是书的一半。另一半是读者，作者从读者那里学习。
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
我不知道有哪位作家曾经设想过，在这个地球上，人类最终能够在没有食物的情况下生存。
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
无论作者多么缺乏经验，文章的质量不可避免地会影响其表达方式。
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
有些作家开始一遍又一遍地做同样的事情，几乎不可避免地陷入自我嘲弄。
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
作者的主要关注点是真实性;因此，他必须保持思想和判断自由。
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
有些人想叫我阿巴拉契亚作家，尽管我知道有些人用地区标签来贬低我。
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
对于第一次写作的作者来说，重要性必须远远超过所写内容的实际价值。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
有些人想成为作家，因为他们喜欢写作。他们照顾。
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。
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
作家的工作是讲真话。
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
布鲁克林是我的作家的隐居地。
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
任何名符其实的作家都是要么专注于一件事，要么专注于另一件事。
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
作家应该用眼睛写作，画家应该用耳朵作画。