A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
计划写作不是写作。概述、研究、和别人谈论你正在做的事情，这些都不是写作。写作是写作。
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
不管你戴着什么样的面纱，都要讲出真相——但一定要讲出来。让自己沉浸在永不满足的悲伤中。
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
当你写书的时候，你日复一日地扫描和辨认树木。当你完成后，你必须退后一步，看看森林。
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
作家能迅速捕捉到他思想的变化。经济增长是激动人心的;经济增长充满活力，令人担忧。心灵的成长，心灵的成长。
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
悬疑写作涉及解决谜题，而“高悬疑”写作则是作者将男/女主人公推入高潮。
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
我写的有趣。如果我能让我的妻子笑，我知道我在正确的道路上。但是，是的，我不喜欢伤感。我有这个倾向。
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
当我的写作室的门气喘吁吁地关上，玫瑰花瓣几乎觉察不到的叹息落在我的书桌上时，我知道我的缪斯女神就在这里。
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
作家是这样一种人，他能把人们想要表达的想法和情感表达出来，但却不确定应该如何表达，甚至是否应该表达。
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
一个年轻的作家很容易被暗示性、空灵性、反讽性和反思性所吸引，但是陈述性在大多数优秀作品的底部。
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
写歌词最难的一件事就是让歌词以一种你不知道有作者在场的方式出现在音乐中。
The sign said don’t do it, so naturally I did it. Signs are always saying stuff in a silent way. Writing is a way to say something in a silent way.
牌子上写着不要这样做，所以我很自然地就这样做了。标识总是用一种无声的方式来表达。 写作是一种沉默的方式。
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
是的，这是有意义的;至少对我来说，有一件事很重要，那就是让一些挑剔的人的脑海里响起一段和谐的话语。
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I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为，你不妨承认这一点。
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。
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes.
我是我生命的作者。不幸的是，我用钢笔写，我不能抹去我的错误。
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后，他决定为子孙后代写作。
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。