A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
我曾在冷战期间的某个地方写道，我有时希望铁幕比现在高得多，这样你就能看到，在没有交流的情况下，双方的科学发展是否平行。在这种情况下，它当然不是。
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。
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.
如果一个人认真对待他的写作，他一定要把它写好。但是他怎么能写得好，直到他学会看他写得不好。他在写作上的进步，以及对糟糕作品的认知，必然会以同样的速度展开。
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
生活能让你更好地理解生活。我希望我的角色能变得更深刻、更全面。更广泛的旅行让我对文化差异如何影响人们、政治和艺术有了更深刻的了解。
I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.
自从去年秋天我开始写一本书以来，我对作家的了解和欣赏越来越多。在那之前，我以为高尔夫作家每天早上起床，打一轮高尔夫，吃午餐，出现在我们最后三个洞，然后去吃晚饭。
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.
应该有两个主要目标在普通的散文:传达一个信息,包括任何会分散读者的注意力或检查他的习惯性的阅读速度,他应该觉得他是坐在缓解在出租车上,通过交通不是骑着马气质。
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.
当我坐下来写作时，我感觉自己就像一个写自己的极客。然后我醒悟过来，就因为我现在的样子，我不能停止说话，部分原因是，我说的任何话都会让我想起曾经发生在我身上的事情，我总是打断别人，谈论我自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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 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。
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
没有人能读懂一本深奥的书，除非他至少读过其中的一部分内容，并亲身经历过。
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
合适的词语在合适的地方，才能真正定义一种风格。
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
我不等待情绪。如果你那样做，你将一事无成。你的大脑必须知道它必须开始工作。
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
原创作家不是谁也模仿不了的人，而是谁也模仿不了的人。