A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.
我们是同一台糟糕打字机上的伟大作家。
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.
他的主题的发现者将不会失言。
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
一个人要翻半个图书馆才能写一本书。
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。
No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.
不，她没有失言。她被噎住了。
Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.
小说家不可信。他们是虚构的。
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
唯一无可挑剔的作家是那些从不写作的人。
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
所以我决定开始写剧本，然后上了耶鲁大学。
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
对我来说，写作就是通过手指思考。
The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.
当你不再害怕这些话的时候，它们就会变得简单。
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.
我几乎总是写作，就像我几乎总是呼吸一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
鸟唱歌不是因为它有答案，而是因为它有一首歌。
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。
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后，他决定为子孙后代写作。
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?
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
我想我的计划是写诗，出版书，以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。
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。