A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
我的写作非常重要，所以我每天都写作。我只是喜欢它。我从中得到了乐趣。
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
因为你是有史以来独一无二的，所以你是无与伦比的。
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
要知道你最终会把一切都抛诸脑后;写作要求你这样做。
Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.
我知道有人在观察我的作品。 这就是我坚持阅读和写作的原因之一。
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
我们必须谦虚地承认，发明并不在于从虚无中创造，而在于从混沌中创造。
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
现在电视上有这么好的剧本，但遗憾的是，我没有在电影上看到太多优秀的剧本。
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
如果写作的欲望没有伴随着真正的写作，那么写作的欲望就一定是不写的。
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
当我还是个小男孩的时候，他们叫我骗子，但是现在我长大了，他们叫我作家。
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
有时候我觉得我的写作听起来就像我走出房间，让打字机开着。
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
检查你写在纸上的每一个字。你会发现一个惊人的数字，它没有任何用处。
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
作家采取认真的措施来确保他的孤独，然后找到无尽的方法来浪费它。
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
我喜欢写作，因为你可以让事情发生，并以现实生活中从未有过的方式发生。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
任何被设计成无害的东西都不值得你浪费时间——生命本身就是相当无礼的，就像它以死亡告终一样。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说，就必须有钱，有自己的房间。
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
人之所以不能理解语言，是因为语言本身不能理解;不想明白。
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。