A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.
我真的很享受写歌的治疗价值。
I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.
我总是在写作或玩耍,因为这就是我的生活。
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
你们可能会在一段时间内对彼此的写作感到厌倦。
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
复习是写作的一大乐趣。
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
道德上善的伟大工具是想象力。
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
写作是政治的另一种延续。
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。
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
我们根据读过的每一个故事来写作。
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
好故事是编不出来的;必须蒸馏。
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
我对剪刀比对铅笔更有信心。
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
门关着写,门开着写。
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
写音乐就像跳建筑一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
人之所以不能理解语言,是因为语言本身不能理解;不想明白。
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
我有时认为,这是因为他们太不善于口头表达自己,所以作家一开始就拿起笔和纸。
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
正确的单词和几乎正确的单词之间的区别就像闪电和闪电虫之间的区别一样。