A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
我去过很多地方，做过很多事情，但写作永远是第一位的。这是一种我不能没有的痛苦。
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane.
作家试图从日常生活的混乱中创造秩序，从悲剧和世俗中提取意义。
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
写作的过程是无限的。即使它每天晚上都被打断，它也是一个单一的符号。
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。
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
故事是作者写给自己的一封信，告诉自己一些他无法发现的事情。
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
在文学领域，初学者的志向是学习文学语言;内行的奋斗就是摆脱它。
What makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.
一个故事之所以独特，并不一定是故事中的信息，而是作者选择加入或删除的内容。
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
所有深刻的分心都会打开某些门。当你无法集中注意力时，你必须允许自己分心。
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
多年来教授写作，在很多重要的方面都干扰了你自己的写作，带走了一些诗歌的乐趣。
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
我总是对那些告诉我他们在一开始就计划好了一切的作家感到惊讶。我觉得他们的写作日子一定很平淡。
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
也许南方小说写作的例子是如此的强大，以至于南方的诗人在某种程度上把自己锁定在了这一点上。
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
作家总是焦虑不安，总是疲于奔命——远离电话，远离责任，远离尘世的纷扰。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
别告诉我月亮在发光;让我看看碎玻璃上的闪光。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
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。
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。