A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
今天早上我去掉了一个逗号，今天下午我又把它放回去了。
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
作家的默默无闻通常与他的无能成正比。
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
我喜欢好的作家不是他说什么，而是他低声说什么。
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
风格是一种气质的标志，印在手边的材料上。
A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.
备忘录是为了保护作者而写的，而不是为了通知读者。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说，就必须有钱，有自己的房间。
He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.
他声称自己对人类普遍的愚蠢行为负有一定的责任。
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
我以前试着和别人一起写过一次，但是没有成功。
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。
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
写作就是变得不感兴趣。在艺术中有一种放弃。
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
良好的判断力既是写作的首要原则，也是写作的源泉。
It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
有人说，如果你有话要说，写作就会变得更容易。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
作家灵魂的每一个秘密，生活的每一次经历，思想的每一种品质都写在他的作品中。
Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.
限制和写作不能混为一谈。敞开你的心扉。让它成为一幅有创意的画布。
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
我所遇到的一些作家是如何读完他们的书而不因无聊而死的，我无法理解。