A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
语言就像x光一样，如果你正确地使用它们——它们可以穿透任何东西。你一看书就被扎了。
I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.
如果你有足够的勇气去读我之前写的书，我将写一本能够改变整个人类的书。
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
我认为有些人在写原创的蓝草音乐，但是很难让它们在广播中播出。
Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
基本上，这就是为什么我写:拯救我的屁股，拯救我的屁股从疯人院，从街上，从我自己。
There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.
只要把笔写在纸上，就能让我振作起来，集中精力思考问题。
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
没有什么比写作更令人满意的了。我觉得写作是最好的，其他一切都随之而来。
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
我一直非常欣赏自己的作品。我是我所知道的最有趣、最有趣的作家之一。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.
你必须聪明到可以写作，愚蠢到不去想所有可能出错的事情。
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
瞧，别光盯着书页看，”我过去常对学生们说。“成为的人物。活在书里。
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
把自己想象成一种炽热的力量，被上帝和他的使者照亮，也许永远与之交谈。
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
没有新鲜的思想，任何人都无权进入文学。我们已经有太多灵巧的苦工了。
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。’
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
最可怕的时刻总是在你开始之前。
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
没有作家的眼泪，就没有读者的眼泪。作家不感到惊讶，读者也不感到惊讶。
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
对于一个失去家园的人来说，写作变成了生活的地方。
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘，要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的事情。
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
我写的愿望成真——出于某种原因，一个可怕的概念。