A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
在所有获取书籍的方法中，自己写书被认为是最值得称赞的方法。作家真的是那些写书的人，不是因为他们穷，而是因为他们不满意那些他们可以买到但不喜欢的书。
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
我认为，让我能够创作个人歌曲并年复一年地演唱它们的原因是对优秀作品的敏感性。仅仅是在纸上张开你的血管并不一定是有趣的。我想和人们交谈。
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
我写作是为了找出我真正知道什么，以及我对某些事情的真实感受。写作需要我比谈话更深入地思考和记忆。写作提供了反思这个世界所必需的孤独。
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
他们正在写克里斯汀遇到玻璃天花板的剧本。我一直以为克里斯汀永远不会碰壁。我以为她的梦会把她带走。也许她的梦想不会带她去她想去的地方，但她仍然有她的梦想。
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!
我为写歌奋斗了很长时间。人们一直告诉我应该写作，其他作家也提出要和我一起写作，说实话，我从来没有真正热爱过写作——而且我也不确定自己是否有写作的天赋!
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
事实上，在我十几岁的时候，我就成为了一名创作型歌手，因为这是唯一能保证地球上有人会唱我写的歌的方法。从那时起，我几乎在任何地方演出:摇滚俱乐部、音乐厅、竞技场、电视。
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
我一直很珍惜我的大厨房，因为在那里做每件事都更好，你洗碗，你做每件事，而不是弄乱另一个房间，我把打字机就放在旁边。所以我现在还在写作，但是当孩子们还小的时候，我写的更多。
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
这样做的好处是，在花大量时间写初稿之前，你就能发现故事的缺陷，而且你几乎不可能在一个困难的章节卡住，因为你已经做了很多工作来克服这些障碍。
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为，学术小说已经够多了，而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的，他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。
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。
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
当人们开始写有这个想法,你必须把一切正确的第一次,每一句话都必须是完美的,每一段必须是完美的,每一章必须是完美的,但你所做的不是任何形式的公开展示,直到你准备好。
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.
我可以用铅笔画出运动的物体，但如果我在写作，我就会纠结于如何去写。那个男孩跑过走廊?男孩飞快地跑下走廊。男孩跑下大理石走廊?我为这些话而苦恼。所以我的编辑工作非常努力。我很幸运有她。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书，你的话就会像河流一样流淌。
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
几乎任何人都可以成为作家;生意就是从这种状态中获得金钱和名誉。
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
像专业人士一样学习规则，这样你就能像艺术家一样打破规则。
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。
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".
“没有什么比内心承受着一个不为人知的故事更痛苦的了”。