A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
你知道，有时候我在写东西的时候得到了灵感，然后任务似乎很艰巨，让我有点害怕。
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.
也许他的悲剧在于，他是世界上唯一一个正常的作家，而正是这一点增加了他的孤立感，也增加了他的罪恶感。
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
电脑不能代替判断，就像铅笔不能代替识字一样。但是不用铅笔写作并没有什么特别的优势。
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
同样，如果一个人不不断地努力抹去自己的个性，他就写不出任何可读的东西。好的散文就像一扇窗户。
If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
如果你想成为一名作家，不要太担心写作。尽可能多读书。尽可能多地阅读不同的作家的作品。接受这些风格。
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
学习你的乐器。要诚实。不要做任何虚假的事情。到处都是垃圾。这里有足够的空间进行一些诚实的写作。
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
人们与伟大的写作、伟大的作品、伟大的艺术指导或伟大的方向并没有真正的关系。他们只是有点羡慕它。
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
用英语写作是对前世所犯罪行所设计的最巧妙的折磨。英语阅读大众解释了原因。
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
两个小时的小说写作使这位作家精疲力竭。在那两个小时里，他跟完全不同的人在一个不同的地方。
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
我累坏了。我想我只是太累了。那是非常紧张的五年。我们没有停止。那是不断的巡演，不断的写作，不断的录音。
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
我不在乎你是谁。当你坐下来写剧本的第一页时，在你的脑海里，你也在写你的奥斯卡获奖感言。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
不要在主题上使用太大的词。当你的意思是“非常”时，不要说“无穷大”;否则，当你想谈论一些真正无限的东西时，你就会无话可说。
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。
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
作家必须教育自己，最卑鄙的事情莫过于害怕。
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意，让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉，在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
写作没什么。你所做的就是坐在打字机前流血。