A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
虚构是谎言里的真相。
I was born to travel and write verse.
我生来就是旅行和写诗的。
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
我允许我的直觉指引我的道路。
I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.
我写那封信的时候心情很不好。
Writing and Painting are the same for me.
写作和绘画对我来说是一样的。
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
出版是对隐私的自我侵犯。
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
谚语常蕴含智慧。
Begin with another's to end with your own.
从别人的开始到你自己的结束。
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。
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
废纸篓是作家最好的朋友。
Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
让他们开怀大笑;让他们哭;让他们等待。
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
福楼拜需要进行无穷无尽的修正。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
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。
The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.
真实与虚构的区别在于，虚构必须有意义。
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
如果我真的认为自己是个作家，我就不会写剧本了。我会写小说。