A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.
我试着发掘自己在写作方面的一点天赋。
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
写作是心灵的手工劳动:一项工作，就像铺设管道。
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。
Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
作家往往是他们所写作品的最差评判者。
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
没有特别的写作仪式。我的桌子通常很乱。
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
你只能一次把一个单词写在纸上。
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
写作是一种可怕的劳动，但不像懒惰那么可怕。
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
因为音乐，我开始写歌词。我退缩了。
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
小说写作无疑是我所知道的最累人的工作。
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
当我的马跑得好时，我不会停下来给它喂糖。
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
我确实认为写短篇小说常常是运气的问题。
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
我们可以毁坏我们所写的，却不能撤消它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘，要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的事情。
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。
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。
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。