A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.
我知道如果我要写一本书，我也必须读一本书。
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
我是一个讲故事的人。如果我想传达一个信息，我就会写一篇布道文。
Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all.
语言是我们中最接近于从无到有的东西。
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
作为一个诚实的作家，你必须远离家乡，在生活中完全孤独。
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
阅读是一门艺术，思考也是一门艺术，写作也是一门艺术。
When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.
当一个角色出现在生活中，就像第一次遇到一个新朋友。
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
好的判断来自经验，而经验往往来自糟糕的判断。
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
不要第一个尝试新事物的人，也不要最后一个抛弃旧事物的人。
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
所有的文字都是面具，越是可爱，就越是要隐藏。
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
写得清楚的人有读者，写得含糊的人有评论家。
I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
我阅读一个人游泳的方式，以挽救他或她的生命。我也是这么写的。
Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.
描写始于作者的想象，但应止于读者的想象。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
我想我的计划是写诗，出版书，以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。
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。
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
没有作家的眼泪，就没有读者的眼泪。作家不感到惊讶，读者也不感到惊讶。
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
写作是唯一一个没有人认为你很可笑的职业，如果你没有赚到钱。
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……
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
像专业人士一样学习规则，这样你就能像艺术家一样打破规则。