A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
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。
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
我的方法是尽最大的努力去寻找正确的话语，然后以最大的轻率去说。
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
我不等待情绪。如果你那样做，你将一事无成。你的大脑必须知道它必须开始工作。
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
每一个作家，无论多么谦虚，都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
在一位希腊教授和几位诗人的一点帮助下，图书馆和图书管理员造就了我。
Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
给那些想要在没有任何恼人延迟的情况下取得成功的年轻作家的建议:不要写男人，写男人。
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
如果一个作家不得不抢劫他的母亲，他不会犹豫:“希腊瓮上的颂歌”比任何数量的老妇人都值钱。
Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
写作很容易:你所做的就是坐在那里盯着空白的纸，直到你的额头上出现了血滴。
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。
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
移动的手指写字，写字的人继续写。你的全部虔诚和你的全部智慧，也不能抵消它的一半。
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
作家灵魂的每一个秘密，生活的每一次经历，思想的每一种品质都写在他的作品中。
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
你从不给别人写信——你尽你所能写最好的，希望别人也有同样的感觉。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
说到文风，有话直说，就像石头掉到地上一样。
Begin with another's to end with your own.
从别人的开始到你自己的结束。
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。
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。
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
作家让自己被语言所吸引。