A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.
我已经写了一个多星期了。我发现它清洁、清爽;这对我有好处。
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
如果我没有写作，我就会跑到街上向人们扔手榴弹。
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
当我上大学时，我参加了一个创意写作班，并在一周内决定成为一名作家。
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
当我真正应该把想法写在日记里的时候，我却把它们公开了。
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
但是对于作家来说，忧郁并没有什么错。这是写作中很重要的一种颜色。
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
话说反弹。如果你让他们说，他们会做他们想做和必须做的事。
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
如果你对某件事有那么强烈的感觉，你有义务试着改变我的想法。
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.
我知道没有读者会问问题。作家必须把自己的爱好强加给读者。
It's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
儿童作家很早就发现，写作是为了拯救你的灵魂。
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.
新颖的草稿就像生面团;你得把它打烂才能让它上升。
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
写作是唯一的一件事，当我写作时，我觉得我不应该做别的事情。
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
书籍选择作者;创造的行为并不完全是理性的和有意识的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。
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。
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
几乎任何人都可以成为作家;生意就是从这种状态中获得金钱和名誉。
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书，你的话就会像河流一样流淌。
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。