A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
写作是一种我从未理解的激情，但讲故事是我一直想做的。
I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.
我一直很喜欢写作，我毕业时拿到了英语学位;我做过一些新闻报道。
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
要想读得好，一个人必须是发明家。然后是创造性阅读和创造性写作。
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
如果你只在灵感迸发时写作，你可能是一个相当不错的诗人，但你永远不会成为小说家。
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
故事的情感基调或影响应该是热烈和投入的，而不是遥远和冷静的。
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
在这个阶段，我的主要职业目标就是继续写作并以此为生。
You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.
一个小时的阅读比六个小时的写作能让你学到更多的写作知识。
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
这是我试图保持隐形，而不是用明显的写作转移读者对故事的注意力。
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
通过写作，你会成为一个更好的作家。通过写关于旅行的文章，你会成为一个更好的旅行作家。
I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.
我在写作中成长，我现在很在乎写作，我知道写东西有多重要。
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
歌曲的实际创作通常是以实现的形式出现的。我想不出一首歌来。
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
你所要做的就是把一个词接一个词地写下来，记住当作家的感觉有多棒。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。
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。
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后，他决定为子孙后代写作。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
鸟唱歌不是因为它有答案，而是因为它有一首歌。
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。