A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
诗歌是它自己的媒介;这和写散文很不一样。诗歌可以以意象的方式说话，它有独特的捕捉环境的方式。
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
自从我开始写音乐以来，我就一直在画画，画画，拍照——事实上，我画画的时间比我写音乐的时间还长。
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
我通过阅读学会了梦想，通过写作学会了创造梦想，通过教学学会了培养梦想家。我将永远是一个梦想家。
After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
写完一页后，海明威会让它浮在地上。他从不把书页弄皱——他相信如果你把它们弄皱，一年之内你就会发疯。
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
这意味着我必须密切注意写作，但同样要注意科学背景——这有时意味着做相当复杂的计算。
Writing by hand, mouthing by mouth: in each case you get a very strong physical sense of the emergence of language...print obliterates it, type has no drawl.
用手写，用嘴说:在每种情况下，你都会对语言的出现有一种非常强烈的身体上的感觉……打印消除它，类型没有拖长。
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
我总是在某个特定的时刻关注自己的写作年龄。这就是我对支持我的观众保持信心的方式。
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
这篇文章的戏剧性之处在于，公共生活与我的个人生活和私人生活交织在一起。正是在这个十字路口，我找到了这篇文章的能量。
I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
我觉得我现在的处境很好，如果我想做一个节目，我肯定我可以做另一个节目，但是现在我脑子里最主要的事情是写歌。
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
当然，这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由，但一旦你有了自由，你也有义务去做。
I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.
我写作是为了成为某个东西的一部分——一个由词语和思想组成的世界，这些词语和思想有时会受到痛苦的批评，但有时会受到感激的爱，而且永远不会被摧毁。
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
写传记时，事实和虚构不能混为一谈。如果是的话，虚构的观点应该用红墨水打印，事实应该用黑墨水打印。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
任何被设计成无害的东西都不值得你浪费时间——生命本身就是相当无礼的，就像它以死亡告终一样。
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。
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。
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
愤世嫉俗者只是受挫的浪漫主义者。
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。