A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
当我编辑我的文章时，我把自己放在听众的位置上。我最不愿意做的事情就是被灌输给一个艺术家，告诉他应该成为什么样的人，或者在聆听艺术家的作品时该怎么想。然而，我确实想要得到启发。这是有界限的。
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候，生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样，他就不会觉得那么武断。
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
我能够坐在林肯身边，看看他是怎么想的，他是怎么做的，他对周围发生的事情有什么感觉。我感觉到他身上的压力。你可以看到人们给他写了什么，他们是如何鼓励他的。
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
我一直写。在我上学的时候，唯一喜欢我的老师是我的创意写作老师。我曾经参加过诗歌比赛，我想我从来没有输过。所以我有了做诗人的想法。
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说，他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上，而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况，而不是刚开始的时候。
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
他肯定处于一种困惑的状态。我过去常去卡伦公园看他。对我来说，他们是当时最好的诗人，但这并不鼓舞人心，因为他们没有走多远，不是吗?
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
我花了多年的努力、努力和研究才学会做一个简单的手势，我对写作艺术也有足够的了解，我意识到，写一个简单、漂亮的句子需要多年的集中精力。
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.
一旦你开始导演，你就进入了一种特定的模式，你把纸上的任何东西都拍成你认为它可能想要的样子。所以不管是不是我写的，我还是会用同样的方法来写。
Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.
把它发给能发表它的人。如果他们不愿意发表，就把它发送给其他能够发表它的人!继续发送!当然，如果没有人愿意发表它，那时你可能会想做些写作以外的事情。
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
当人们谈论写作、说话或思考的自由时，我只能笑。从来没有这样的东西存在过。现在不存在这样的东西;但我希望它会存在。但这一定是在你我不再写信和说话之后的几百年以后了。
I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.... We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
我不会坐在书桌前，把我头脑中已经清楚的东西写进诗里。如果它在我的脑海中是清晰的，我应该没有动机或需要写它……我们写作不是为了被人理解;我们写作是为了理解。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
我写的愿望成真——出于某种原因，一个可怕的概念。
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。
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 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。
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
我一直认为写广告是第二赚钱的写作形式。首先，当然是赎金便条……
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。