A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
我把写小说比作一场旅行，带着一些我将要到达的目的地的概念，但不是整个画面——随着旅程的进行，它会逐渐显现为一系列的启示。
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
我想有一些词曲作者很聪明，他们可以写歌，我想也有一些词曲作者像我一样，我在写合唱歌词方面有困难，但我可以在这样的故事中写一首歌。
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
我是个相当苦行的人。我大部分的写作都是在晚上。你不会分心，你的大脑会进入你所写的东西，进入你所写的世界，而不是你所处的世界。
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
成为作家的秘诀是你必须写作。仅仅考虑写作、研究文学或作为一名作家规划未来的生活是不够的。你真的必须把自己锁起来，一个人，然后开始工作。
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
一个作家能得到的最大的赞美是，一个故事和一个角色能让读者着迷。我沉浸在故事写作中，我错过了很多睡眠时间来思考它和构思情节要点。
I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
我对写作有一种特定的情感，它来自于我知道两件事:作为一个读者，我喜欢读什么;作为一个作家，我能做什么。我知道自己的极限。我知道有些事我做不到。
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
写歌是一种职业;所以这并不是试图从我与他人的互动中获取一些东西，出于某种原因，把它们给一个完全陌生的人听。我觉得别人那样做很无礼。
Ah yes, going back to writing, how disgusting! As if all this had some purpose, as if all this would penetrate some thick skull, amuse some drivelling reader curled up in his armchair before the soporific stew of every day!
啊，对了，继续写下去，真恶心!仿佛这一切都是有目的的，仿佛这一切都能穿透某个厚实的脑壳似的，在每天那令人昏昏欲睡的炖菜之前，让某位蜷缩在扶手椅里的无聊的读者逗乐吧!
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
我正试着养成一种习惯，拿起一本书，学习如何写下我对事物的感受，不是我的感受，而是我的想法，希望我很快就能朝着写作和导演的方向迈进。
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
我每天晚上都要写论文，直到凌晨四点，直到我不能再写一个字，甚至连下一封信都写不出来。我上床睡觉了。第二天早上八点，我又开始写作了。
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意，让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉，在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
在任何爱情故事中，第一次接吻的决定是最重要的。它改变了两个人的关系，甚至比最终的投降还要强烈;因为这个吻已经包含了投降。
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。
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
当我做得很好的时候，我有一种很好的温暖的感觉，但是这种快乐被每天开始的痛苦抵消了。让我们面对现实吧，写作是地狱。
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。
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
好朋友，好书和一个昏昏欲睡的良心:这是理想的生活。