A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
虽然我喜欢我过去所做的工作，但我更喜欢我现在正在写的东西。
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
你想成为一名作家，不知道如何或何时?找一个安静的地方，用一支不起眼的笔。
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.
不，我必须集中精力，尤其是当我写作的时候，因为我想擅长写作。
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.
我的书如水;最伟大的天才是葡萄酒。每个人都喝水。
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
事实上，这是一个事实，我一直在做更多的写作比玩在最近几年。
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
女人写的每一个字都在改变着世界的故事，修改着官方的版本。
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
我的目标是以最好最简单的方式把我看到的和感觉到的写在纸上。
Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.
写作已经成为我的一种发泄方式，当我没有它的时候，我就会被压抑起来。
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
我想，在所有令人疲惫、徒劳、空虚的交易中，最糟糕的莫过于写作。
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
当评论家说我是通俗小说的大师时，我感到畏缩。什么是不受欢迎的小说?
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
我认为我自己是一个作家，碰巧作为人类学家在写作。
The role of a writer is not to say, what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
作家的角色不是说我们都能说什么，而是我们不能说什么。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
人之所以不能理解语言，是因为语言本身不能理解;不想明白。
With writing, we have second chances.
通过写作，我们有了第二次机会。
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
作家是这样一种人，他能把人们想要表达的想法和情感表达出来，但却不确定应该如何表达，甚至是否应该表达。
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。
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。
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解，只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍，却无话可说。