A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"
语言是与其他生命的联系。我看到一个词，它说的是我注意到的、看到的、感觉到的、观察到的东西，我把它捕捉下来;“我需要那个词!”
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
任何写作的人都知道，不管你的项目是什么，最终你的大部分时间都是一个人呆在一个房间里，旁边放着钢琴或吉他。
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
这就是我成为一名作家的原因之一——我从来没有那么多朋友。我会读很多书，听音乐。这就是我的生活。
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
但问题是:作为一个编剧，你所做的就是出售你的版权。作为小说家、诗人、剧作家，你拥有自己的版权。
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
我是个作家，一直都是;成为一名作家是我身份中不可或缺的一部分。出版，受到好评，是这种身份的一个组成部分。
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
我想做我自己，做我生来要做的——不是要有一个“职业”，而是要成为一个直截了当、明显无误的动物，一个作家。
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
写故事或小说是在经历中发现顺序的一种方式，是在作者自己的生活中偶然发现因果关系的一种方式。
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
如果我留在智利，我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中，在家庭中，在人们期望我成为的那个人里。
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
我们读的书越多，就越清楚地认识到，作家的真正职责是创作一部杰作，没有其他任何任务是重要的。
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
这很有趣，从某种程度上来说，演员是作家。并不是说这两种东西就像苹果和橘子一样是分开的。作家和演员是一体的。
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
好的作家定义现实;坏的只是重述它。一个好的作家能把事实变成真理;一个糟糕的作家往往会适得其反。
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.
人们总是说我一定是班上的小丑，有那么多的声音。不，我太害羞了，不适合做班上的小丑;我是班上的小丑作家。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
任何优秀的作家都会受到欢迎，也不会受到欢迎;这就是你如何知道你是一个伟大的作家。
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。
I'm not a great writer.
我不是一个伟大的作家。
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
有一件事我可以告诉你，我不是一个有条理的作家。
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
成为一个成功作家的最好方法是读好文章，记住它，然后忘记你是从哪里记住它的。
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。