A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Get black on white.
黑白颠倒。
All plots are cliche.
所有的情节都是陈词滥调。
You are what you write.
你写的就是你自己。
How can you stop writing?
你怎么能停止写作?
I'm going to quit writing.
我要停止写作了。
I'm a writer, not a genre.
我是作家,不是流派。
Writing starts with living.
写作始于生活。
I prefer writing originals.
我更喜欢原创。
Good writing is always new.
好的写作总是新的。
Novel writing wrecks homes.
写小说毁了房子。
God pity the poor novelist.
上帝怜悯这位可怜的小说家。
Writing is a delicious agony.
写作是一种美妙的痛苦。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的,书并不是自然奇观,而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候,我感到既震惊又失望。
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
几乎任何人都可以成为作家;生意就是从这种状态中获得金钱和名誉。
Writing is thinking on paper.
写作就是在纸上思考。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此,让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
一个人要想成为伟大的好人,就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘,要么写一些值得读的东西,要么做一些值得写的事情。