A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
当作家全身心投入到自己的内心深处，并不是要揭示他的个性，而是要揭示他在这个复杂的社会中所处的环境和所支持的那个人的时候，他就已经全身心投入了。
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
你知道，作为一名作家，我并没有真正写出本年度五部最佳剧本之一。有很多精彩的剧本;我只是被提名的幸运儿之一。
Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
作家不凭经验写作，尽管许多人不愿承认他们没有经验。如果你凭经验写作，你可能会得到一本书，也许三首诗。作家从同理心出发写作。
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
如果你是一名作家，你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后，无论你在做什么，开车、散步还是做家务，你都可以写作，因为你有这样的空间。
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
无论我走到哪里，都会有人问我，我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是，他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。
I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
我相信作者……应该永远是最后的裁判。我一直坚持这一立场，有时看到书因此受到伤害，但至少同样经常得到帮助。这本书是作者的。
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
我认为，为男孩写故事的正确方式是不仅让男孩感兴趣，而且让任何曾经是男孩的人都感兴趣。这极大地扩大了观众。
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。
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
写作是一项孤独的职业。家庭、朋友和社会是作家的天敌。如果他想要维持并完成一项事业，他必须是一个人，不受打扰，有点野蛮。
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
思想可能会随波逐流，但不会随波逐流。 我得去拿。我知道没有任何工作的体力或脑力能与之相比 无中生有的想法带来的令人心碎的痛苦。
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。
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.
在我的下辈子，我想要又高又瘦，平行停车，煮好咖啡。但是现在，我的生活中有很多事情要做，但是我会一直做到我死的那一天。我想写更多的书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。’
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
我们绝对需要改革国会的预算编制程序。
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
至于写作，那是一项残酷而艰难的工作。除非你很幸运，否则它会让你心碎。
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。
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。