A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
写作对神经来说是相当糟糕的。
Inspiration comes of working every day.
灵感来自每天的工作。
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
从写作和阅读中学到的东西一样多。
Getting even is one reason for writing.
报复是写作的原因之一。
The desire to write grows with writing.
写作的欲望随着写作而增长。
Don't get it right, just get it written.
不要把它写对，只要把它写下来。
If it's fiction, then it better be true.
如果是虚构的，那最好是真实的。
If it sounds like writing, i rewrite it.
如果它听起来像写作，我就重写它。
Writing that's not working for a living.
写作不是为了谋生。
Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
准备好成为一名作家。
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
我认识的每个作家都有写作上的困难。
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
写作有一种神秘主义。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
我真的会设身处地地为角色着想。
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。
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
语言不能很好地表达思想。它们总是在表达出来之后立刻变得有些不同，有些扭曲，有些愚蠢。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
很多人来找我，问我是如何在完成这么多工作的同时，仍然看起来那么心不在焉。
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
几乎任何人都可以成为作家;生意就是从这种状态中获得金钱和名誉。