A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.
限制和写作不能混为一谈。敞开你的心扉。让它成为一幅有创意的画布。
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
当我受到鼓舞的时候，我就会写作，我每天早上9点就会受到鼓舞。
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
所有作家都是模仿者，我对模仿别人的风格和声音不感兴趣。
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
其他任何一位作家都渴望得到赞扬;词典编纂者只能希望逃脱指责。
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
写作是唯一的一件事，当我写作时，我觉得我不应该做别的事情。
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
至于写作，那是一项残酷而艰难的工作。除非你很幸运，否则它会让你心碎。
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
诗意的直觉和智慧的作品，哪个更好?我认为它们是相辅相成的。
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
最近我试着读莎士比亚的作品，发现它枯燥得令人难以忍受，使我作呕。
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
如果我的医生告诉我只有六分钟的生命，我不会沉思。我会打字快一点。
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
如果我真的认为自己是个作家，我就不会写剧本了。我会写小说。
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
文学是一种职业，你必须不断向没有才华的人证明你的才华。
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
一个作家能做的最有独创性的事情就是像他自己一样写作。这也是他最困难的任务。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
我看不出一个人怎么能一边从事物理学的前沿工作，一边写诗。他们是对立的。
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
如果你想成为一名读者，那就去读书;如果是作家，那就写作。
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
合适的词语在合适的地方，才能真正定义一种风格。
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
小说的内容加起来，暗示着“逻辑一致性”，或者某种解释，肯定是二流小说;因为生命的真理是神秘的。
Begin with another's to end with your own.
从别人的开始到你自己的结束。
Writing and Painting are the same for me.
写作和绘画对我来说是一样的。