A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
作家和写作
Writers And Writing
There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
还有一件事要记住:作家总是在出卖别人。
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
伟大的格言作家读起来就好像他们彼此都很熟悉。
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
请不要轻视翻译。他是人类文明的邮递员。
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
出版一本书的人在公共场合故意不穿裤子。
But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.
但是，现在的情况是，我几乎所有的作品都绝版了。
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
在任何一门真正好的学科中，只要探究得足够深，你就会热泪盈眶。
A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
一个好的作家基本上是一个讲故事的人，而不是一个学者或人类的救赎者。
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
我可以向你保证，每个作家身上最好的部分一般都能在他的书中找到。
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。
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
一个作家要得到一个女人，只要说他是个作家就行了。它是春药。
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
艺术是作者不受控制，而是主体控制作者。
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
任何一个十五岁就想成为作家的人都知道写几本小说。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书，如果艺术不能让我们变得更好，那么它到底是为了什么。
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。
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
移动的手指写字，写字的人继续写。你的全部虔诚和你的全部智慧，也不能抵消它的一半。
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
在一位希腊教授和几位诗人的一点帮助下，图书馆和图书管理员造就了我。