A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
我考虑上电影学校;我修了一门电影课程,对电影制作和电影写作都很感兴趣。
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
这根本不是写作。事实上,如果我知道我的意思,我可以说莎士比亚超越了文学。
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
表演是包含的——你表演三个月,然后离开——但写作是创造的行为。写作是很危险的。
I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.
我曾经碰过奥斯卡奖。我的一个朋友有一个,用于写作。我一碰到它,他就说:“现在你再也赢不了了。”
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
在电视写作中,我觉得格列佛被利力浦特人束缚住了。在小说写作中有更多的自由。
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
写小说,你写的东西没有限制,只要它能增加你所写论文的价值。
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
写歌是因为你很沮丧,你需要用某种方式来交流,这对我来说不是真的。
This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.
这个故事是我们这个时代的故事。而一个作家的尝试不是去揣摩他的时间,而是在时间里探询他的思想。
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
我不知道我为什么开始写作。我不知道为什么有人这么做。也许他们感到无聊,或者在其他事情上失败了。
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
我认为写作的某些方面是可以教的。很明显,你不能教授视觉或天赋。但你可以帮助安慰。
I am torn open, unabridged, hot and a bit crazy inside. This is the feeling which belongs to me, she has always been mine.
我被撕裂了,没有删节,内心火热,有点疯狂。这是属于我的感情,她一直属于我。
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
我的儿子曾经有过写作的想法,并试着写一点,所以这也给了我写作的灵感。
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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。
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".
“没有什么比内心承受着一个不为人知的故事更痛苦的了”。
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
鸟唱歌不是因为它有答案,而是因为它有一首歌。
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为,你不妨承认这一点。
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。