A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.
作家应该被阅读，但既不能被看到也不能被听到。
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
关于正义的不公正，可以写一本书。
I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
我发现写作领域的竞争要小得多。
I quote others in order to better express my own self.
我引用别人的话是为了更好地表达我自己。
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
作家必须把他要说的话写下来，而不是说出来。
He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.
他四肢无力，浑身湿漉漉的，比一头母牛的呼吸还要温和。
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
任何人都能创造历史。只有伟大的人才能写出来。
The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.
开始很容易;接下来发生的事情要难得多。
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
有些编辑是失败的作家，但大多数作家也是。
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。
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
写作不是一种职业，而是一种不快乐的职业。
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
作家确实活在思想里，活在灵魂的旅馆里。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
我真的为我的丈夫和家人写了很多书。他们让我们更紧密地联系在一起，让我们可以讨论很久没有说出口的事情。
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。
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的东西。
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。
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
所有作家都是模仿者，我对模仿别人的风格和声音不感兴趣。
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
但文字是东西，一滴墨水， 像露水一样，落在思想上，就会产生思想 让成千上万人，也许是数百万人思考的东西。