A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
我只是把这封信写得很长，因为我没有时间把它缩短。
It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it.
根据我的经验，大多数作家并不谈论他们的写作技巧——他们只是在写。
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
任何作家绝对诚实地取悦自己，几乎肯定会取悦他人。
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
写作在很大程度上是一个游乐场——一个艺术游乐场。这是我做的最有趣的事情。
No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.
没有什么铁器能像在适当的时候完全停止跳动那样令人心寒。
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
对于作家的写作障碍，没有什么比直接吃冰激凌更好的治疗方法了。
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
写作不仅仅是手指在键盘上的技术动作。写作是生活。
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
写作的唯一目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
写作是关于文化的，应该是关于一切的。这就是它的本质。
It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.
这很像和别人一起写剧本，我认为这就是我们的看法。
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
不要试图写你感觉不到的东西——那将是失败的——”没有任何价值的回音
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
就在他去世的那天，我拾起了那封信。这是我能找到的唯一的安慰。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
我有时认为，这是因为他们太不善于口头表达自己，所以作家一开始就拿起笔和纸。
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?
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。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘，要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的事情。
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
当我做得很好的时候，我有一种很好的温暖的感觉，但是这种快乐被每天开始的痛苦抵消了。让我们面对现实吧，写作是地狱。