A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
如果你是一个作家，所有问题的答案都是肯定的。
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
如果你不写，什么会让你停止呼吸。
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
最可怕的时刻总是在你开始之前。
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
写小说最难的部分是完成它。
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
一个不写作的作家是一个追求疯狂的怪物。
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
让我好好生活，好好爱，好好说。
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
快乐的孩子长大后似乎不会成为作家。
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
写作是一种垂死的形式。每天都有人读到这篇文章。
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
有力的话比写在纸上的字更耐久。
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
好的散文应该是透明的，就像窗玻璃一样。
Not writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.
不写作很辛苦，几乎和写作一样辛苦。
Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.
你的思想是一辆汽车，言语是你的轮子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
我怎么知道我在想什么，直到我看到我所说的?
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。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
The first draft of anything is shit.
任何东西的初稿都是垃圾。
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
写出值得出版的东西，找到诚实的人出版它，让明智的人阅读它，这是成为作家的三大困难。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。