A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.
我想我所有的角色都必须逃离不可能的情况;如果他们没有麻烦，那么作为一个作家，我有麻烦。
Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
阅读——保持好奇心。如果有人对你说:‘事情就是这样。你不能改变它”——一个字也不要相信。
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
我一直很喜欢科幻小说。我认为最聪明的作家是处理重大事件的科幻小说作家。
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.
当写作好的时候，一本书就变成了一面镜子。读者会看到一种不可思议的熟悉感，并做出相应的反应。
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....
我们出版只是为了满足我们对名望的渴望;没有其他动机，除了更卑鄙的赚钱动机……
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
如果一个作家不得不抢劫他的母亲，他不会犹豫:“希腊瓮上的颂歌”比任何数量的老妇人都值钱。
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。
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
如何达到清晰?主要是通过找麻烦和写作来为人们服务，而不是给他们留下深刻印象。
Reality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.
现实和真实的人太微妙和复杂，任何人的打字机都打不了，即使是托尔斯泰的，即使是你的，甚至是我的。
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
只有当你停止写作，开始做其他事情的时候，尤其是当你睡着的时候，真正的工作才会完成。
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
我们现在生活在一个既怀疑事实又怀疑价值的时代。我们希望看到和评判的是这个时代的生活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
作家是这样一种人，他能把人们想要表达的想法和情感表达出来，但却不确定应该如何表达，甚至是否应该表达。
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
一个天生就有天赋的人会在使用它的过程中找到最大的快乐。
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
我一直认为写广告是第二赚钱的写作形式。首先，当然是赎金便条……
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes.
我是我生命的作者。不幸的是，我用钢笔写，我不能抹去我的错误。