A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
我写作完全是为了发现我在想什么，我在看什么，我看到了什么，它意味着什么。我想要什么，我害怕什么。
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
我们当中有谁没有感觉到，我们在纸上读到的人物，比站在我们身边的人更真实?
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
我不需要太显眼，每个人都有位置。虽然我还没有建立一个利基，我只是写情歌。
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
事实上，学习写作可能是学习阅读的一部分。据我所知，写作源于对阅读的高度投入。
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
在高中时，我因为一篇关于结核病的文章而获奖。当我写完这篇文章时，我确信我得了这种病。
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
写小说实际上是在寻找受害者。在我写作的时候，我一直在寻找伤亡人数。这些报道揭露了伤亡情况。
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
人类的故事只有两三个，而且还在不断地激烈地重复着，仿佛从来没有发生过一样。
If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.
如果每天晚上下班时，我自己都能理解我写的东西，我就会觉得这一天并没有完全被浪费掉。
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
天赋是一个水龙头。当它打开时，人们必须写。灵感是诗人为了显示自己的重要性而发明的一场闹剧。
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
因此，实际上，我一直在写自传， 但我必须把它变成小说，以赋予它可信度。
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
创造性的努力和改变思维的物质是交织在一起的，这是我们这个时代最伟大的流行知识神话之一。
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
我想，如果我不得不放慢速度，以便能在纸上捕捉到这些想法，我可能会扼杀其中的一些。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
我想我的计划是写诗，出版书，以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。
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。
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。
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……
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。