A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家
Writer
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
我唯一适合做的就是当一名作家，而这种想法完全建立在我的怀疑之上:我永远不适合真正的工作，写作不需要任何条件。
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
创造性的作家不仅是生活的受害者，也是生活的使用者;在他的作品中，他能够控制自我表现，而事实上，他的自我表现是受上千次事故的摆布。
I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.
我不赞成踢掉梯子。我指的是我作为一个年轻作家所攀登的阶梯，那些不收费的小杂志，诸如此类的东西。
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.
我遇到过很多人，他们说自己写了一本书，但一个字也没写。要成为一名作家——我意识到这似乎有些老套——你必须真正地写作。
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
但事实是，我没有工作身份。我既不是律师也不是作家。我是一个母亲，我是一个女人，这就是我想在书中看到的主角。
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
我学会了尊重思想，无论它们来自何方。他们通常来自客户。不管一些作家怎么想，客户经理通常都有很大的创意。
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
如果一个作家对他所写的东西知道的足够多，他可能会省略他所知道的东西。冰山运动的尊严在于它只有九分之一露出水面。
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
你从白日梦中得到灵感。你从无聊中获得灵感。你总是有想法。作家和其他人之间唯一的区别就是我们在写作的时候会注意到。
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
有些事件是如此伟大，以至于如果一个作家参与其中，他的义务就是真实地写出来，而不是假设用发明来改变它们。
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
坐下来，把你脑子里想的都写下来，然后你就成了作家。但是，一个作家能够毫无怜悯地判断自己作品的价值，并摧毁其中的大部分。
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
如果一个作家失去了自我怀疑，随着年龄的增长，他突然变得兴高采烈，变得啰嗦，那么他应该立即停止写作:他该放下笔了。
KEEP EXPLORING
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。
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
布鲁克林是我的作家的隐居地。
A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.
一个真正的作家是上帝派来完成这项任务的。
All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
今天我真正想做的就是去书店，喝咖啡和读书。
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。
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
职业作家是一个没有放弃的业余作家。