A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
你怎么把女人写得这么好?想到一个男人，我就会失去理智和责任感。
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
写作应该是困难的，痛苦的，可怕的练习，可怕的职业。
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes.
我是我生命的作者。不幸的是，我用钢笔写，我不能抹去我的错误。
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
写小说不是演戏的方法，我发现在鸡尾酒时间很容易走出小说。
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
也许写作中最难的事情就是简单地说出我们所看到的事情的真相。
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
写自传最吸引人的地方之一就是你没有死。
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
没有人写任何值得写的东西，除非他完全是为了他的主题而写。
Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.
尽可能广泛深入地阅读。在成为作家之前，你必须先成为一名读者。
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
我对写作有很多看法，但恐怕都是不可打印的。
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
我想写一些关于现在的人会更接近我习惯做的事情。
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
一个好的编辑会理解你在说什么，写什么，不会干涉太多。
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.
写作的目的是膨胀软弱的思想，模糊糟糕的推理，抑制清晰。
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。
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
诗歌是一种情感找到了它的思想，思想找到了语言。
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。
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
告诉人们气候变化的最好方式是通过非小说类作品。在这方面有大量优秀的文学作品。
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
一个人要想成为伟大的好人，就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。