A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
当它在书里的时候，我想它不会再疼了……存在了。写作的作用之一就是把东西擦掉。取代他们。
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
为慈善机构写支票是必要和重要的。但它不能与肉体的仁慈相比，后者是无限伟大的。
Stories do not change the world. I’ve learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way.... I mean it’s not the world I want to change.
故事改变不了世界。我知道了,。但也许以某种秘密的、微妙的方式……我的意思是这不是我想改变的世界。
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
你有特定的写作工具，但一般来说，从无到有的创作会让人很抓狂，你知道，辛西娅和我都很抓狂。
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
回首往事，我想我一直在写作。那也是胡扯。但写胡言乱语或任何事，任何事，总比什么都不写要好得多。
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
讲故事的人的任务是为那些不受国家认可的人赢得同情和一定程度的理解。
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……
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
在我看来，许多作家，由于文化、艺术和教育的环境，由于他们所处的环境而潜移默化地写作。
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our lives-before the obligations start in.
我想写一段我可能是，而且我认为我们所有人都是一生中最快乐的时光——在责任开始之前。
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
这是典型的作家所做的;我们大多数时间只是坐在那里抱怨。事情进展得越好，他们的抱怨就越多。
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
写作与人与人之间的交流无关，而只是一个人思想的不同部分之间的交流。
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
当你开始动笔时，你看到了自己真实的一面，而不是在谈话或思考中流露出来。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
很多人来找我，问我是如何在完成这么多工作的同时，仍然看起来那么心不在焉。
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
小说和厕所隔间里的涂鸦没什么不同，只不过更装腔作势罢了。
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 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。