A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
我知道我五岁的时候就开始写故事了。我不知道在那之前我做了什么。我想只是闲逛。
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
问一个作家对评论家的看法就像问灯柱对狗的感觉一样。
If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.
如果你脑子里的声音让你哭，你就是个疯子。把他们的话写在纸上，你就是一个作家。
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
出色的英语写作是一种不光彩的事情，但出色的翻译写作则是登峰造极。
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
我们对优秀作品的欣赏总是与其真正的困难和表面上的轻松成正比。
It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
这就是我的天性。我必须把事情写下来，这样我才能完全理解它们。
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
有人陷入困境，然后又摆脱困境。人们喜欢这个故事。他们永远不会厌倦。
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
写作使生活变得有意义。你一生都在工作，也许你已经理解了一个小领域。
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
能参与一部回归基本元素的电影真是太好了——角色和精彩的剧本。
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
任何一个从童年时代幸存下来的人都有足够的信息来支撑他的余生。
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
每个层次的作家都会感到恐惧。焦虑伴随着他们写在纸上的第一个字和最后一个字。
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
在计划一本书的时候，不要计划结局。它必须由它之前的所有人来赢得。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
一个好的故事应该引发讨论、辩论、辩论……偶尔的酒吧斗殴。
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
写小说有三条规则。不幸的是，没有人知道它们是什么。
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
别告诉我月亮在发光;让我看看碎玻璃上的闪光。
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。