A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
我要么当作家,要么当流浪汉。
I don't want my writing to be recognized.
我不希望我的作品被人认出来。
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
我写作时从不听音乐。
I really didn't think about song writing.
我真的没想过写歌。
Lineation can make your break your poems.
划线可以使你的诗中断。
I go with the flow but I write against it.
我随波逐流,但我不随波逐流。
We like writing with each other; it's fun.
我们喜欢彼此写作;这很有趣。
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal.
小说通过语言变成了视觉。
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
我在写一本未经授权的自传。
We do not write as we want, but as we can.
我们不是想写什么就写什么,而是能写什么就写什么。
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
一本好书不是写出来的,而是重写出来的。
You don’t make art out of good intentions.
你不会出于好意而创作艺术。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说,就必须有钱,有自己的房间。
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
写小说有三条规则。不幸的是,没有人知道它们是什么。
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
对于一个失去家园的人来说,写作变成了生活的地方。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。