A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
语言是思想的母亲，而不是思想的使女;语言会告诉你一些你从未想过或感觉到的事情。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
很多时候，一张白纸比人们要说的话更真实，人们常常后悔毁了它。
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
我发现写歌很难，因为这对我来说不是天生的。我从来没有想过要成为一个作曲家或歌手。
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
我想我永远不会放弃音乐。这是我的动力。如果没有音乐，就不会有写作。
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
爱很简单，我喜欢写作。你无法抗拒爱。你有了一个想法，有人说了些什么，你恋爱了。
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
如果你在写一本书的时候遇到了困难，试试“出其不意”的方法:在对方没有预料到的时候下手。
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life...
吸引作家写作的原因之一是，他们可以在现实生活中犯错误的时候把事情做对。
Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
开始是如此重要。只要找到合适的时机来介绍这个角色，这个世界，就是一切。
Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!
每当我不知道下一步该写什么的时候，我就在他的马前面放一条湍急的河，把他们俩送过河去!
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
写作的一个问题是，任何致力于写作的人都必须相信自己是优秀的。
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.
写作不是撒谎，也不是偷窃。这是一段旅程，在一个人的话语和灵魂之间寻找透明度。
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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。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说，就必须有钱，有自己的房间。
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 book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书证明了人类有能力使用魔法。
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。
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
小说和厕所隔间里的涂鸦没什么不同，只不过更装腔作势罢了。