A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.
他们说生活得好是最好的报复，但有时写得好甚至更好。
Writing is like a raft with a slow leak; sometimes it floats, sometimes it doesn't.
写作就像一只漏气的木筏;有时会浮起来，有时则不会。
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
真正的炼金术士不会把铅变成金子;他们把世界变成了文字。
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
我太聪明了，有时我连自己在说什么都听不懂。
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
你可能无法改变世界，但至少你可以让罪犯难堪。
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
我一直在写信。我写过故事和诗歌。然后我开始写剧本。
I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
我不会伤害任何人，除了那个一直为我写歌的迪克。
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
在写作中，我发现我至少可以做得和同龄人一样好，如果不是更好的话。
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
很容易证明，糟糕的写作从来没有阻止过学术论文的发表。
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
作家是这样一种人，对他来说写作比别人更难。
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
写小说就是编织一系列谎言以达到更大的真理。
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
不要为了别人能理解你而写作，要为了别人不会误解你而写作。
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。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
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。
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书证明了人类有能力使用魔法。
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。