A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
为戏剧写作，你会发现自己过着夜猫子的生活。
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".
“没有什么比内心承受着一个不为人知的故事更痛苦的了”。
The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
真正的故事不是情节，而是人物如何通过它展开。
I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.
我一直想写一本克莱顿的书。我真的很喜欢他的写作。
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
写小说就像走很远的路去取一坨大便。
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly.
我只知道自己在想什么，我想把它表达清楚。
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
你不能等待灵感。你必须用棍棒去打它。
To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.
呼吸就是生活，而写作不受阻碍就是呼吸永恒。
I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.
我喜欢钢笔。我的写作太棒了，根本不需要抹去。
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more.
到了一定程度，你就会停止写作，更多地思考。
There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
很少有真正的家庭电影。很多作品都很糟糕。
I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.
我编辑自己的故事到死。他们终于跑开了，躲着我。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
小说和厕所隔间里的涂鸦没什么不同，只不过更装腔作势罢了。
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。
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
几乎任何人都可以成为作家;生意就是从这种状态中获得金钱和名誉。
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
写作的过程，我做事的方式是我做任何节拍的感觉，任何节拍告诉我要做的。通常，当节拍响起时，我几乎会立刻想到一个钩子或我想要说唱的主题。在四到八小节的演奏中，我就像，‘哦，好吧。这就是我想做的。