A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with "I've got to get another play.
写作是我逃离这个拥挤的世界的一种方式。我喜欢一个人呆在房间里。这几乎是一种冥想的形式——一种对我自己生活的调查。这和“我得再演一个剧本”无关。
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
每个读者都会发现自己。作者的作品仅仅是一种光学仪器，它使读者能够辨别出如果没有这本书，他可能永远不会在自己身上看到的东西。
Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.
太多的作家试图用太肤浅的教育来写作。他们是否上大学并不重要。一个好的作家要想成为一个成功的作家，就需要对文学史有所了解。
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
作为一名新闻从业人员，写书的另一个不同之处在于，如果你看了第二天早上写的东西，你觉得写得不对，你可以修改它。
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说，小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于，在小说中，作者可以真实地说出真相，而不会让自己蒙羞。
Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling in the dark, and you don't know where the story is going to lead.
作家在谈论写作的乐趣时，有时会感到尴尬，但起草往往是真正令人愉快的。通常，你在黑暗中跌跌撞撞，你不知道故事的走向。
Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
反驳你内心的批评者。训练自己识别并写下批判性的想法。了解为什么这些想法是不真实的，并练习和他们交谈和写作。
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
写小说的好处是，你可以慢慢来，有时花九年的时间和角色坐在一起，深入地观察一个场景，不像在现实生活中，我们只是简单地拍出一些东西。
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
我从来没有因为写不知名的文章而感到沮丧。我总是觉得做这件事的满足感就在做这件事的过程中，真的，并得到一小部分知道你做什么的人的认可。
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
你能做的最糟糕的事情就是在铅笔碰到纸的时候检查自己。在你把它全部写在纸上之前，你不能编辑。如果你能把一切都放下，意识流，你将为自己做一件事。
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的，因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达，去触及，去表达我们内心的某种东西，去理解他人。
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
有相当多诚实的词曲作者在写他们的人际关系和他们自己的个性特征。但出于某种原因，一旦他们走出卧室，他们的诚实似乎就不随他们而来了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
写作的过程，我做事的方式是我做任何节拍的感觉，任何节拍告诉我要做的。通常，当节拍响起时，我几乎会立刻想到一个钩子或我想要说唱的主题。在四到八小节的演奏中，我就像，‘哦，好吧。这就是我想做的。
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。
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。
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
我有时认为，这是因为他们太不善于口头表达自己，所以作家一开始就拿起笔和纸。