A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?
你有没有注意到，仅仅试图把某种年表强加到事件上，就会让它看起来好像占用了很多时间?
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
怀疑是一个问号;信仰是一个感叹号。最扣人心弦、最可信、最真实的故事都包含了这两方面。
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
我正在写的故事存在，以绝对完美的方式写在空气中的某个地方。我所要做的就是找到它，复制它。
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
交谈是院子里的消火栓，写作是楼上房子里的水龙头。打开第一个可以减轻第二个的压力。
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
你可以这样做:你坐在键盘前，一个字一个字地写下来，直到写好为止。就是那么简单，那么难。
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
每天都有成千上万的事情可以听到，信息，但是那些不会消失的东西才是值得注意的。
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
你必须会写字。你必须有一种形式感、模式感和设计感。你必须尊重和掌握语言。
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
也许正是这种语言选择了它所需要的作家，利用他们，使每一个人都能表达它的一小部分。
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
写标题是一门专业——有很多杰出的作家会告诉你，他们写标题并不是为了救人。
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
最好的名声是作家的名声。在一家好餐馆里有个位子就足够了，但还不足以让你在吃饭时被打扰。
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
我想写一个小前言，说历史毕竟是建立在人们的回忆之上的，而这些回忆是随着时间而变化的。
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
当乔纳斯回到家，告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天，因为他被鲸鱼吞了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解，只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍，却无话可说。
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。
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。
You are what you write.
你写的就是你自己。