A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.
如果你有梦想，就坚持下去。但要把它写下来，并采取适当的行动来观察它的显现。
Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.
把手稿变成一本书很容易;把手稿准备成书是很困难的。
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
所有的语言，无论是书面的还是口头的，都是一种死亡的语言，直到它找到一个愿意并有准备的听众。
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
作家必须具有普遍的同情心，是一个天生的弃儿，只有这样他才能看得清楚。
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
写一首简单的旋律可能需要几周的时间，但我很喜欢它。
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
如果你以写作为生，却什么都写不出来，那就完了。这是非常可怕的。
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
我写歌并不是为了商业目的，我只是想创作一些新的音乐。
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
如果有一本书你想读，但还没有写出来，那么你必须写出来。
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
如果我的医生告诉我只有六分钟的生命，我不会沉思。我会打字快一点。
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.
当我写得好的时候，我感到快乐。当我长时间不写作时，我开始崩溃。
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
我发现我在重复自己的话。当你发现你有自己的风格时，这就是结束的开始。
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
我想写一首最美的诗，但那是不可能的;世界已经书写了自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
You are what you write.
你写的就是你自己。
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。
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。