A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
我怀疑，文思枯竭主要折磨的是那些在写作之外有稳定而充足收入来源的人。到目前为止还没有出现问题。
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
只有当语言被用作一种工具，被那些有勇气和诚实去感知和感受它的人所使用时，语言才能达到灵魂的境界。
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
如果你写一个基于真实人物的故事，你会被真实人物和他的生活细节所困。它妨碍了你写自己的故事。
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
写故事或小说是在经历中发现顺序的一种方式，是在作者自己的生活中偶然发现因果关系的一种方式。
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
语言不能很好地表达思想。它们总是在表达出来之后立刻变得有些不同，有些扭曲，有些愚蠢。
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
但通常我会在九点钟左右醒来开始写作。我可能会写三个小时，然后在接下来的一个半月里写。
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
但是，如果你感兴趣的是荒诞的故事，我必须警告你，这种故事需要比通常想象的更多的艺术和判断。
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
的确，我正在从写专栏中抽身出来做其他事情，但这与亲爱的西蒙写过或没有写过的东西无关。
The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.
直到作者把自己的版本写在纸上，这个世界才完全有意义。奇怪的是，写作的行为比生活更逼真。
It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.
它是黑暗的。你不能看到。破碎的窗外只有星星的点点。一个像蛇一样古老的声音从花园里传来:“我将握住你的手。”
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
我既没有专家的帮助，也没有别人的建议。我没有学习写作方面的课程;直到大约一年前，我还从未读过有人给作家写建议的书。
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
我的故事跑上来咬我的腿——我的反应是把咬的时候发生的每件事都写下来。当我完成时，这个想法就消失了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
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。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
写作是唯一一个没有人认为你很可笑的职业，如果你没有赚到钱。
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
像专业人士一样学习规则，这样你就能像艺术家一样打破规则。
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。