A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
我写作时从不思考。没有人能同时做好两件事。
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
正如令人钦佩的煎蛋卷和令人无法忍受的煎蛋卷之间没有任何东西一样，自传也是如此。
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
我所遇到的一些作家是如何读完他们的书而不因无聊而死的，我无法理解。
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
我想，文学的考验在于，我们自己是否因为阅读而活得更有激情。
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
大自然并不满足于否定他的思考能力，而是赋予他写作的能力。
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
编辑应该告诉作者他的作品比实际要好。不是好多了，是好多了一点。
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
写一本好书和写一本坏书一样费力，它发自作者的灵魂深处。
Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
新闻让读者见证历史。小说给读者提供了一个生活的机会。
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
诚实地说，任何作家所能希望达到的最具独创性的东西，就是带着良好的判断力去偷窃。
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
你可以教一个关心写专栏的人，但你不能教一个写专栏的人去关心。
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
生活无法打败热爱写作的作家，因为生命本身就是作家至死不渝的爱。
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
一个人写作的原因并不是他想说什么。他写作是因为他有话要说。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.
自我表达是为婴儿和海豹准备的，在这些地方会很迷人。作家的职责是影响读者。
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
为什么我对作家感兴趣?我就是其中之一，我的很多朋友都是作家。我知道写作是什么感觉。我对创作过程很感兴趣。我着迷于外在的我们和内在的我们之间的差异。
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
你的稿子既好又新颖。但好的部分不是原创的，原创的部分也不是好的。
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
随着经验的积累，写作也变得越来越难。你知道的越多，写作就越难。
Begin with another's to end with your own.
从别人的开始到你自己的结束。
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。