A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
你不可能指望你的写作能把别人的注意力从你身上移开，除非你的写作已经完成了。
I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.
我不认为我应该只写我所知道的，但我也应该写其他的。
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
作家从来没有假期。对于一个作家来说，生活要么是写作，要么是思考写作。
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
我正在写。书页开始堆积起来。我越觉得自己像个作家，我的士气就越高涨。
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
写一本好书和写一本坏书一样费力，它发自作者的灵魂深处。
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。
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
而生命的唯一标志就是笔的滴答声，就像老朋友一样把人物带入记忆。
I am telling you what I know -- words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
我告诉你我所知道的——文字是有音乐的，如果你是一个音乐家，你会写歌来听。
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
人的内心有千万个想法，只有拿起笔才能知道。
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
阅读、思考和交谈有不同的规则。写作融合了这三者。
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
我不认为这是可耻的承认，有时你的时间可以花在阅读比写作更好。
And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
对话，我很擅长，因为这是你在电视写作中唯一需要用到的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".
“没有什么比内心承受着一个不为人知的故事更痛苦的了”。
With writing, we have second chances.
通过写作，我们有了第二次机会。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。