A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.
尽情写作，尽情享受你的创作。现在是你在这些页面上做任何事情的时候了。
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
当然，每个人对一本好书的看法是不同的。对我来说，每一页都让我瞠目结舌，因为它的文字如此新颖。
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
对于小说家来说，特定的历史情境就是一个人类学实验室，他在其中探索自己的基本问题:人类存在是什么?
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
提供一个作家不被惯例所阻碍——有些是这样的——参加这些惯例可以从必要的写作孤立中得到很好的休息。
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。
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
写作是一项工作，一种才能，但也是你思考的地方。它是想象中的朋友，你在下午和他一起喝茶。
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
音乐对我来说一直是一种难以置信的宣泄，无论是写自己的东西还是唱别人的歌;它很自由。
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
我正在花园里写字。要想像花园一样写作，就不能写在花园外面，也不能写在花园附近，而要写在花园里。
Writing isn't just words on a page, it's the flow of humanity, connecting us to what is there, what isn't there, and what we wish was there.
写作不只是一页纸上的文字，它是人性的流动，将我们与存在的、不存在的、以及我们希望存在的东西联系在一起。
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
我没有有意识地开始写一个涉及问题的剧本。完成之后，我像其他人一样坐下来思考这意味着什么。
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
写作需要老练和天真的结合;它需要良知，我们相信事物之所以美丽是因为它是正确的。
If you do not breathe through writing; if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write; our culture has no use for it.
如果你不通过写作来呼吸;如果你不在写作中哭泣，或在写作中歌唱，那么就不要写作;我们的文化对此毫无用处。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
我怎么知道我在想什么，直到我看到我所说的?
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
正确的单词和几乎正确的单词之间的区别就像闪电和闪电虫之间的区别一样。
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
好朋友，好书和一个昏昏欲睡的良心:这是理想的生活。