A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书，而读者读一本书是为了记住它。
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
单词和句子是复习的主题;段落和整篇文章都是先见之明的主题。
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
为什么人们总是问作家他们为什么停下来?我相信每个人都能在抽屉里找到几首珍贵的诗。
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
事实上，当我们停止新订单时，我比以前更忙了。唯一的空白是在我们写作的时候。
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
把你的作文通读一遍，当你遇到一篇你认为特别好的文章时，把它删掉。
I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
我能写得比任何人都快，我也能写得比任何人都快。
Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
写作，如果管理得当(你可以肯定的是，我认为我的管理得当)，只是交谈的另一个名字。
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
我阅读广泛，包括非小说类和小说类，所以我认为没有一个作家能影响我。
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
从来没有一本好的小说家传记。不可能有。如果他有什么本事，那就是人太多了。
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
一个作家，仅此而已:一个人在一个房间里用英语交谈，试图获得正确的人类情感。
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
我喜欢写一些我没有答案的东西，那些困扰我的问题。这些事使我烦恼。
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
如果我必须给年轻作家一些建议，我会说不要听作家谈论写作或他们自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
原创作家不是谁也模仿不了的人，而是谁也模仿不了的人。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说，就必须有钱，有自己的房间。
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
历史会对我很好，因为我打算写它。
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
至少有一半的悬疑小说出版违反了这样的法律:一旦真相大白，解决之道似乎是不可避免的。
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。
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
我相信我的直觉能找到主题，我凭直觉写作。我有一个想法，当我开始，我有一个形状;但只有在几年之后，我才能完全理解我所写的东西。