A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
摧毁艺术最有效的方法是将一种特定的形式神圣化。和一个哲学。
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
写作就像结婚一样。除非对自己的运气感到惊讶，否则永远不要做出承诺。
I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.
我写我想读的东西。如果我要写下我所知道的，我将永远盯着空白的一页。
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
除了写作，什么都不重要。没有其他值得做的事情了……寂静上的污点。
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
任何人写过的最好的作品，都是那些总是让他处于尴尬边缘的作品。
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
写作是一项艰苦的工作。但是如果你想成为一名作家，你就会成为一名作家。没有什么能阻止你。
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
一本好的小说告诉我们关于主人公的真相;但是一部糟糕的小说告诉我们关于作者的真相。
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
我倾向于读更多的非小说类书籍，真的，因为当我写作的时候，我不喜欢读其他的小说。
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
我冒昧地猜测，阿农写了那么多诗却没有署名，他通常是个女人。
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
那位作家做得最多，他给读者的知识最多，花的时间最少。
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
当我写东西的时候，我在写的时候尽量不去分析它。
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
写歌有治疗作用，它要么扼杀爱情，要么赢得爱人的心。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
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。
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。
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
当我做得很好的时候，我有一种很好的温暖的感觉，但是这种快乐被每天开始的痛苦抵消了。让我们面对现实吧，写作是地狱。
With writing, we have second chances.
通过写作，我们有了第二次机会。
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
小说和厕所隔间里的涂鸦没什么不同，只不过更装腔作势罢了。