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。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考,原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
没有作家的眼泪,就没有读者的眼泪。作家不感到惊讶,读者也不感到惊讶。
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。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
我没有写过我没有写过的故事。
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
我想我的计划是写诗,出版书,以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。