A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.
别人的话越是以事实内容打动他，他就越觉得自己必须等待自己的事实，然后才会动口。
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
我站在雾中哭泣，想着自己站在雾中哭泣，想着我是否能把这段经历写进一本书里。
Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.
写作不是时间的问题，而是空间的问题。如果你的脑子里没有写作的空间，即使你有时间，你也不会写作。
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
如果我能在五分钟内把故事从头到尾讲完，我就准备开始写了。在这五分钟里，它是一个常数。
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
嗯，我必须告诉你，我写的剧本非常接近骨头。所以我现在正在写第七集，不能告诉你第八集发生了什么。
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
语言诗人只写语言本身。阿什伯里的诗人只写诗本身。在我看来，这似乎是一条死胡同。
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
不，这不是一个很好的故事——它的作者忙于倾听其他声音，而没有尽可能地去倾听来自内心的声音。
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
这些文章是不同的，因为最终它是我感兴趣的东西，我只是在写我自己，并把这些主题作为一个棱镜。
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.
我正在写触摸的续集，因为我想进一步探索我提出的中文问题。在续集中会有更多关于这方面的内容。
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
把笔写在纸上的行为鼓励我们停下来思考，这反过来又让我们更深入地思考生活，帮助我们重新获得平衡。
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink.
写传记时，事实和虚构不能混为一谈。如果是的话，小说部分应该用红墨水印刷，事实部分应该用黑墨水。
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.
当你是一个学诗的学生时，如果你没有意识到自己有多么没有天赋，直到你变得更好一点，你就是幸运的。否则，你就会停下来。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。
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。
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……
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘，要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的事情。
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。
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。