A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
最好的科幻小说应该是疯狂和危险的，而不是理智和安全的。
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.
音乐让我看到故事，但故事不让我写歌词。
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
当我写作时，我感觉自己像一个没有胳膊，没有腿的人，嘴里叼着一支蜡笔。
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
你能写作的唯一方法就是借着你身后燃烧的桥梁之光。
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
任何一个审查员都是傻瓜。他是个审查员这一事实就说明了这一点。
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
任何年龄的优秀作品都是神经症的产物。
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
世界上没有一种激情可以和改变别人草稿的激情相提并论。
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
这就是我们所拥有的，最后，这些话，最好是正确的。
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
一个人写作是为了在纸上、在时间上、在别人的心中为自己建立一个家。
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man.
要写得好，要像普通人一样表达自己，但要像智者一样思考。
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
写作的方法是当你的箭用尽时，把你的身体扔向靶子。
I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.
我通过写作获得文字的魔力。 我通过想象学习世界的神话。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
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。
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
不要在主题上使用太大的词。当你的意思是“非常”时，不要说“无穷大”;否则，当你想谈论一些真正无限的东西时，你就会无话可说。
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。
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。
"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”。