A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
当我们认为别人以某种方式实现了自己的梦想，而我们没有实现时，我们的创造性梦想就会变得不情愿。
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.
写作变成了一个发现的过程，我迫不及待地想在早上开始工作:我想知道我要说什么。
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
为成年人写作通常意味着增加脏话的数量——但如果你能找到一个替代脏话的方法，你可能会写得更好。
Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
沉默不是故事的自然环境。他们需要的话。没有他们，他们变得苍白，生病和死亡。然后他们缠着你。
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。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
我可以给任何一个对写作感兴趣的人一个建议:阅读!我认为做一个读者比做一个作家重要得多!
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
写书有点不同，因为就我而言，我的编辑比我小一岁，基本上和我有相同的敏感度。
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
写作是唯一的一种艺术形式，在这种艺术形式中，许多艺术家通过在出版物和公共场合互相批评来谋生。
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
告诉人们气候变化的最好方式是通过非小说类作品。在这方面有大量优秀的文学作品。
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
正如许多作家所说，如果作者对事件不感到惊讶，那么读者很可能也不会感到惊讶，并感到无聊。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
人之所以不能理解语言，是因为语言本身不能理解;不想明白。
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。
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
诗歌是一种情感找到了它的思想，思想找到了语言。
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
最可怕的时刻总是在你开始之前。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。