A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
他(作者)对真理的忠实程度应该如此之高，以至于他根据自己的经验所作的创造应该比任何事实都更能真实地反映事实。
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书，如果艺术不能让我们变得更好，那么它到底是为了什么。
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
我的目标是，尽我最大的努力，把我一生的全部和历史，也就是我的讣告和墓志铭，都写在这句话里。
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
只有通过虚构和想象的维度，我们才能了解个人体验的真实情况。任何其他方法都必然是通用的和抽象的。
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
把这个论点变成一个具体的形状，一个形象，一些强硬的短语，像一个圆圆的实心的球，他们可以看到，可以处理，可以带回家，那么这个事业就成功了一半。
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
写作有透视法、明暗法，就像绘画或音乐一样。如果你生下来就知道这些，那很好。如果没有，学习他们。然后根据自己的需要重新排列规则。
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
艺术的功能是更新我们的感知。我们熟悉的东西我们就看不见了。作者对熟悉的场景进行了震撼，就像施了魔法一样，我们从中看到了新的含义。
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.
写任何东西都是非常困难的，但是，唉，对我来说，因为我上瘾了，有很多乐趣。我经常后悔我曾经开始写散文，因为它是如此的困难。但是我停不下来。
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
至于我的下一本书，我要克制自己不去写它，直到它迫近我的心头:它在我的脑海里变得沉重起来，像一个成熟的梨，挂饰，妊娠期，要求被剪掉，否则它就会掉下来。
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
写广告的奥秘主要在于简明扼要地说出人们想要说的话，就像写在信里或告诉熟人一样。
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。
Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
我认为，孩子们常常被要求在有话要说之前就开始写作。教他们用自我压抑的方式思考、阅读和交谈，他们会写作，因为他们无法控制自己。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.
当心别把一个字拼错了。在你写一个单词之前，一定要考虑它的拼写，如果你不记得，就查字典。拼写正确会给女士带来极大的赞扬。
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。