A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.
写作不是职业、职业或工作;它不是一种生活方式:它是对生活的综合反应。
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
从我很小的时候起，我就一直在写诗或戏剧……我担任主角的戏剧。
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
幻想的吸引力之一就是非常认真地对待荒谬的想法，假装它们并不荒谬。
You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.
你在信中写的东西，我有时也有同感:有时我不知道该如何度过。
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
在我开始写作之前，我就看到了诗歌的形状，而写作只是达到这种形状的过程。
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
拿破仑说的每一句话，他写的每一行字，都值得一读，因为这就是法兰西。
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
如果你在写小说，你会在一个房间里呆上三四年。外面没有什么东西进来。
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
严肃的作家写作，不管有没有灵感。随着时间的推移，他们发现例行公事比灵感更有益。
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
作家很少写他们所想的东西。他们只是把别人认为他们在想的事情写下来。
Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out.
我的脑子里有没有原创的想法?我的光头。也许如果我更快乐，我的头发就不会掉下来了。
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
我不等待情绪。如果你那样做，你将一事无成。你的大脑必须知道它必须开始工作。
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
每个作家的天职都是描述他或她所看到的世界;比这更重要的是广告。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
写作是唯一一个没有人认为你很可笑的职业，如果你没有赚到钱。
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。
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
作家必须教育自己，最卑鄙的事情莫过于害怕。