A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
阿谀奉承固然不错，但获奖并不意味着写出高质量的歌曲。
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
如果我不能想象事情会是什么样子，我写作就会有困难。
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
光有才能不能成为作家。这本书后面一定有个人。
I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.
我开始意识到我正在写的短文章是海报材料。
Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.
讲故事的人喜欢为思想创造一个假期。
To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.
飞/偷是女人的姿态，偷入语言让它飞。
Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too.
花不会说出来，它们会表现出来。好书也应该如此。
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
作家的目的是防止文明自我毁灭。
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.
作家的目的是防止文明自我毁灭。
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
当你还没有站起来生活的时候，坐下来写作是多么的徒劳。
When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.
当你是一名作家的时候，不管你有什么苦恼，解决之道总是写作。
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
自传始于一种孤独的感觉。这是一种孤儿形式。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
对于一个失去家园的人来说，写作变成了生活的地方。
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
诗歌是一种情感找到了它的思想，思想找到了语言。
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。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说，就必须有钱，有自己的房间。
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
写作没什么。你所做的就是坐在打字机前流血。
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。