A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
英语的用法有时不仅仅是品味、判断和教育——有时纯粹是运气，就像过马路一样。
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
有时，作家会对宣传、促销和出版业的整体性质说出一些真实的东西;但遗憾的是，并非总是如此。
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。
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
正是在寻求赢得、保持或值得读者感兴趣的艰苦劳动中，才产生了写作的乐趣和痛苦。
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.
我们的文化中有一个可悲的事实，诗人写诗或谈论他的艺术比实践它能挣更多的钱。
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
我认为谈论一个人目前的工作是不好的，因为它从根本上破坏了创造性行为。它释放张力。
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
每一位伟大而有创见的作家，他的伟大而有创见之处与他的创见成正比，他自己也必须创造出他所要享受的趣味。
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat - Like an unsuccessful literary man.
美洲驼是一种毛茸茸的羊，长着毛茸茸的毛，表情懒散，喉咙起伏不平——就像一个不成功的文人。
When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
当风格完全形成时，如果它有一个甜美的底音，我们称它为美丽，作者可以在文字或句法上随心所欲。
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
我一直认为写广告是第二赚钱的写作形式。首先，当然是赎金便条……
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
我正在花园里写字。要想像花园一样写作，就不能写在花园外面，也不能写在花园附近，而要写在花园里。
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
我继续写那些糟糕的剧本，幸运的是，没有人能写出这样的剧本，就像没有人出版我早期的小说一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
How can you write if you can't cry?
如果你不会哭，你怎么写?
Writing and Painting are the same for me.
写作和绘画对我来说是一样的。
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
美好的事物在短暂的时候是双倍的美好。
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
试图定义自己就像咬紧牙关一样。
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
任何人都能创造历史。只有伟大的人才能写出来。
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
我和西蒙交谈，给他写信。我从来没有写过日记。但是现在我正在给他写日记。我想不仅仅是我，还有很多人，家人和朋友，仍然能感受到他的存在。