A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
散文是建筑，巴洛克时代已经结束。
The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.
保持原创的最好方法就是不要抄袭别人。
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
我的前景是虚构的，我的背景是真实的。
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
我写作是为了理解和被理解一样多的东西。
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
说到写作，我可能有点强迫症。
One should use common words to say uncommon things
一个人应该用常用词来表达不寻常的事情
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
女人想把爱情写成小说。男人，一个短篇故事。
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
我对写作比对表演更感兴趣。
If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
如果你的想法不太好，就不要想太多。
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
我必须永远记住，写作真的很难。
I kill my loneliness by reading and writing, damn.
我通过阅读和写作来消除我的孤独，该死。
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
作者关心的是了解而不是判断。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
作家必须教育自己，最卑鄙的事情莫过于害怕。
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 man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
一个人要想成为伟大的好人，就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。
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 almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为，你不妨承认这一点。
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。