A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
戏剧的结构总是关于鸟儿如何回到家栖息的故事。
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
我喜欢用第一人称写作，因为我喜欢成为我所写的角色。
You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.
你不知道什么是爱，直到有人和你一起写书。
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.
我喜欢读书。但我喜欢阅读的时间比我开始喜欢写作的时间长得多。
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
一个想法，就像鬼一样，必须先跟它说几句话，才能解释清楚。
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。
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
主要的写作是把所见的说出来，这样就不必再说了。
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
写作过程中最困难和复杂的部分是开始。
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
南方诗人还在写叙事诗，形式诗，戏剧诗。
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
千万不要谈论你心目中的英雄的心理状态。从他的行动中可以看出来。
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
让我感到困扰的是，人们说为钱写作既丑陋又令人反感。
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
你永远不需要改变你半夜起来写的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
我怎么知道我在想什么，直到我看到我所说的?
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
语言不能很好地表达思想。它们总是在表达出来之后立刻变得有些不同，有些扭曲，有些愚蠢。