A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
当你为报纸写作时，你有所有这些参数。你不能骂人，你必须使用简短的段落，诸如此类。如果你保持在这些参数之内，你会有很多自由，因为你在为第二天写作。
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于，他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性，并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
我对创意写作程序了解不多。但如果他们不教，他们就不会说真话，第一，写作是一项艰苦的工作，第二，你必须放弃大量的生活，你的个人生活，才能成为一名作家。
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.
作为作者，你总是在歌曲中出现。如果你接近人类的样子，你就在写共同的经历。我们都做着同样的事情，所以如果你钉住了某人，那么你也钉住了自己。
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
我可能是在写人们希望我写的东西，写在一个可能受经济因素支配的地方。为了克服这一点，我开始研究我的梦想，因为当我使用梦想材料时，我不会受到太多审查。
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
当我写一本书的时候，我每天大约写五千字，如果我在写短篇小说，我每天大约写三千字。我在项目之间会有很长一段时间的休息，当我读很多书，整理花园，思考下一本书或故事的时候。
If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.
如果我是严格为别人写的，这如何显示我的经历或想法?我意识到我可以像我想要的那样个人化，如果人们愿意的话，他们可以把这些情况联系起来。
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
我被写作和导演所吸引，因为这很像我十几岁时在木偶剧院的感觉。你更能掌控一切，参与到生产的方方面面，因此更有挑战性和成就感。
A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
吉他对我来说是非常严格的在为我的乐队写歌的背景下，提出我的乐队的想法，然后能够在舞台上尽我所能地表演这些歌曲-这就是吉他对我来说一直是。
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
我认为我为比我想象中更多的人写作的想法已经产生了一种文学和政治上的普遍责任。我甚至有一种自豪感，因为我不想落后于我以前所做的。
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
特别感兴趣的杂志是作家们开始写作的危险场所，因为写作很快就会陷入常规，当人们想要创作自己的东西时，他们很可能会发现自己在艺术上筋疲力尽。
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
福克纳是一位与我的灵魂有很大关系的作家，但海明威与我的写作技巧关系最大——不仅仅是因为他的书，还因为他在写作技巧方面惊人的知识。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You are what you write.
你写的就是你自己。
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。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好，要么写得不好。
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书证明了人类有能力使用魔法。