A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
我喜欢最后期限。我喜欢它们飞过时发出的嗖嗖声。
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
写作在某种程度上总是个人化的，但并不总是直接的。
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
我喜欢在心怀恶意时写作。这就像打了个好喷嚏。
For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.
就我个人而言，我现在主要专注于写作和表演。
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
写作是一种探索。你从零开始，边学边做。
Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.
在你最不想写的时候写， 因为那是你写得最好的时候。
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
也许，如果我强迫自己写作，我就会发现自己出了什么问题。
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
没有真正的结局。这是你停止这个故事的地方。
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
我本来要写一部浪漫喜剧的，但我的角色都分手了。
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
写作是彻底的孤独，坠入自己冰冷的深渊。
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
作为一名演员，我所学到的一切，基本上都应用到了写作上。
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
真正的作家是那些想写，需要写，必须写的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
任何被设计成无害的东西都不值得你浪费时间——生命本身就是相当无礼的，就像它以死亡告终一样。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
写出值得出版的东西，找到诚实的人出版它，让明智的人阅读它，这是成为作家的三大困难。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
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。