A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.
你知道你最擅长什么，写作不是我的专长，但我喜欢它。
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
我们必须为工作本身而工作，而不是为了财富、关注或掌声。
I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
我想我被吸引去写一些感觉紧张和重要的东西。
I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.
今天下午的大部分时间我都在为我的自传写一篇新的序言。
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
一个短篇故事必须有一个单一的情绪，每句话都必须建立在它上面。
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
真正的生活不能简化为口头或书面的语言，任何人都不能。
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
如果我不写作，我的生活会很糟糕;如果我不生活，我的写作也会很糟糕。
Writing is like going underwater thank you for being there when I come back up.
写作就像潜水一样感谢你在我浮上来的时候陪在我身边。
(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
(写作)-把裤子的座位贴在椅子上的艺术。
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
我内心的某个部分从一开始就知道，我想要的不是现实，而是神话。
They were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.
他们彼此相处得很自在，这对一个富有成效的讲习班是必不可少的。
Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.
记住，写作就是翻译，要翻译的作品就是你自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
你只能一次把一个单词写在纸上。
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为，你不妨承认这一点。
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意，让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉，在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。
Writing is thinking on paper.
写作就是在纸上思考。