A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
我们的作家满是陈词滥调，就像旧谷仓里满是蝙蝠一样。这显然没有什么规则，除非你怀疑的任何陈词滥调毫无疑问是一个，最好删除。
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
写作的矛盾在于，它既可以被看作是一种行为，也可以被看作是一种解释过程，一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此，它既肯定又否定自己的本性。
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
我甚至没有学习最新的词典中所建立的定义。我不是编字典的。我是一个词典编纂者不得不应付的人。我是语言发展的活生生的证据。
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
我每天都在工作——或者至少我强迫自己进入办公室或房间。我可能一事无成，但你不投入时间就不会得到奖金。三个月内可能什么都没有，但没有它，你就赚不到第四笔钱。
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
清晰语言的最大敌人是不真诚。当一个人的真实目标和他宣称的目标之间存在差距时，他就会本能地转向冗长的词语和陈腐的习语，就像墨鱼喷出墨汁一样。
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于，他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性，并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
行动胜于写作。一个好人比一个伟大的作家更值得深思。人生只有两件事值得追求:做值得写的事;写出值得一读的东西;和
Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.
写作是一种声音，它从梦中召唤着我们，当我们认为没有人在看我们时，它从我们的眼角向外窥视，它是一种渴望，即使当我们认为自己应该是最幸福的时候，它也会让我们心碎，对此我们无法给出一个名字。
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
但也许它在山上，在树叶下，或者在某个地方的沟里。也许永远也找不到。但你所发现的，无论你发现了什么，总是缺失的一部分，而写作是诗人发现他所发现的东西的方式。
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
我不认为你能写出好文章，除非你把你自己和你的感受暴露出来。深沉的歌不是来自表面;他们来自内心深处。你要写的诗和歌，我相信都在你的心里。
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
成为作家有三个原因:第一，你需要钱;第二，你有话要说，你认为全世界都应该知道;第三，你不知道该拿漫长的冬夜怎么办。
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
我很快就写了很多东西:一页又一页的笔记，开始看起来很不连贯。大部分都是从广播中截取的，因为作为一名家长，我突然要面对每天每时每刻都在播报新闻的广播。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
我认为在任何写作中你都要注意细节。
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
作家为什么写作?因为它不在那里。
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。
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。
Begin with another's to end with your own.
从别人的开始到你自己的结束。