A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.
写作是一种自我的行为，你不妨承认这一点。
What's so great about writing? You can make anything true
写作有什么了不起的? 你可以让任何事情成真
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
有些编辑是失败的作家，但大多数作家也是。
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
创造力——就像人类的生命一样——始于黑暗。
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
小说家是活在别人身上的人。
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
我最喜欢为三年级和四年级的学生写作。
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
事实上，我认识的每一位作家都宁愿当音乐家。
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
写作和讲故事几乎是一样的，我是这么做的。
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
故事总是比你写的好。
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。
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
作家像牙齿一样被分为门牙和磨牙。
Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.
大多数时候，我只想呆在家里读书写字。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
别告诉我月亮在发光;让我看看碎玻璃上的闪光。
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
告诉人们气候变化的最好方式是通过非小说类作品。在这方面有大量优秀的文学作品。