A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
我喜欢萨特的观点，但不喜欢他的写作。
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
我对写好诗已不抱希望。
Medicine and writing are natural companions.
医学和写作是天生的伴侣。
All writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.
所有的写作都是一种疾病。你无法阻止它。
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
做一名作家不是重点。写作。
Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.
作家的障碍只是自我的失败。
I don't write for a living. I live to write.
我不以写作为生。我活着就是为了写作。
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
我写作是因为我无法想象不写作。
pencils racing across paper, a sound I like.
铅笔划过纸的声音，我喜欢。
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
写日记是一次深入内心的旅行。
Writing is the great invention of the world.
写作是世界上最伟大的发明。
Writers will happen in the best of families.
作家将发生在最好的家庭。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
任何被设计成无害的东西都不值得你浪费时间——生命本身就是相当无礼的，就像它以死亡告终一样。
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
很多人来找我，问我是如何在完成这么多工作的同时，仍然看起来那么心不在焉。
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
不要在主题上使用太大的词。当你的意思是“非常”时，不要说“无穷大”;否则，当你想谈论一些真正无限的东西时，你就会无话可说。
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为，你不妨承认这一点。
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
愤世嫉俗者只是受挫的浪漫主义者。