A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
也许我不为任何人写作。也许孩子们在雪地里乱写名字的时候是为同一个人写的。
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it.
没有一本书是写不完的。当我们在做这件事的时候，我们学到了足够的东西，当我们离开它的时候，我们会发现它不够成熟。
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
一个好的故事是作者和读者共同的梦想。任何将读者从梦中唤醒的行为都是一种致命的罪恶。
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
你不能只是写啊写，然后把东西放进抽屉里。没有别人欣赏的温暖阳光，它们就会枯萎。
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
任何被设计成无害的东西都不值得你浪费时间——生命本身就是相当无礼的，就像它以死亡告终一样。
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
学者们喜欢对一部作品进行理论分析，但每一本书都在吞噬作者，是他或她的世界的总和。
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
写作是一种魔力，就像任何其他创造性艺术一样，是生命之水。水是免费的。所以喝。喝吧，喝饱了。
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
如果人们不能很好地写作，他们就不能很好地思考，如果他们不能很好地思考，其他人就会为他们思考。
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
我在写初稿，提醒自己，我只是把沙子铲进一个盒子里，这样以后我就可以建造城堡了。
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
只有审视自己的个人偏见，我们才能真正成长为艺术家;只有培养同理心，我们才能真正成长为人。
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
我原以为文字是精确的工具。现在我知道他们吞吃世界，在原处不留一个。
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
现代艺术中另一个令人不安的因素是不成熟的常见症状，害怕做以前做过的事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
告诉人们气候变化的最好方式是通过非小说类作品。在这方面有大量优秀的文学作品。
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。
Writing is thinking on paper.
写作就是在纸上思考。