A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.
重要的不是这些想法有多棒。而是你如何去写，让它们变得伟大。
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
写作是我唯一坚持做的事情，除了结婚。
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.
如果你没有时间去阅读，你就没有时间(或工具)去写作。
First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.
首先，我就是我。我是真实的。我写作不是为了给人留下深刻印象。我写作是为了表达。
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
写作不只是盯着丑陋的脸看，而是找到一种拥抱丑陋的方法。
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
写作对我父亲来说是一种精神锻炼，是他唯一真正相信的事情。
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
故事是光荣可信的;阴谋诡计多端，最好软禁起来。
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
写小说有三条规则。不幸的是，没有人知道它们是什么。
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
大。有一个词我真的很讨厌。这是一个假的。每次听到它我都想吐。
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
写作和旅行开阔你的视野，如果不是你的思维，我喜欢站着写作。
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
我像天才一样思考，像著名作家一样写作，像孩子一样说话。
There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't.
世界上有两种类型的人:会编辑的和不会编辑的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
别告诉我月亮在发光;让我看看碎玻璃上的闪光。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
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。
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。
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。