A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
我写得又活泼又幽默。这不是计算;我就是这么想的。我发明了一种写作风格来表达我是谁。
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
我们是杯子，不断地、静静地被斟满。诀窍在于，知道如何把自己翻个底朝天，把美好的东西放出来。
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
要实现持久的文学，无论是虚构的还是真实的，作家需要敏锐的洞察力、吸收能力和创造力。
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
我经常被指责把人类学变成文学，但人类学也是实地研究。写作是它的核心。
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
打破纪录并不是你所期望的。这就像一种体育活动，通常不是喜剧和写作。
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
好的作品应该唤起读者的感觉——不是下雨的事实，而是被雨淋的感觉。
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
我写场景——通常是很长的场景——主要是因为我仍然被引诱写六行，其中一行半就可以了。
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
我的工作是写作。我是拿薪水的。你上次听到有人挑战医生从癌症中赚钱是什么时候?
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
一个人写的是玩笑话，另一个人读的是紧张和激情;一个人带着紧张和激情写的东西，另一个人却带着开玩笑的心情读。
My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
我写书时最喜欢的部分是构思，这可以在我真正坐在书桌前很久就开始了。
I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.
现在我明白了，写小说是种下在我灵魂中的种子，虽然在很长一段时间内我都不准备种下这颗种子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
我有时认为，这是因为他们太不善于口头表达自己，所以作家一开始就拿起笔和纸。
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。
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。
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。
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
一个好的故事应该引发讨论、辩论、辩论……偶尔的酒吧斗殴。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好，要么写得不好。