A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
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。
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
难道只有通过做梦或写作，我才能知道我在想什么吗?
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
每一个满腹经书的人都是人类的敌人。
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
我喜欢在电视上谈论那些不值得写的东西。
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
有些书不应该被遗忘;没有一个是不值得记住的。
Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.
写作是独自完成的。人们不会单独谈论他们所做的事情。
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
重写对我来说意味着，如果我写了三天，我就重写了它。
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?
能写书固然好，但你能动动耳朵吗?
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
如果我要像别人一样唱歌，那我就根本不需要唱歌。
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。
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
当一个人以第一人称写小说时，他必须是那个人。
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
异端是对抗人类思想混乱的唯一良药。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
我一直认为写广告是第二赚钱的写作形式。首先，当然是赎金便条……
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。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
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。
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。