A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
对我来说，写作主要是重写。
Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
艺术是情感在行动中的溢出。
The best thing about writing is the reader.
写作最好的地方在于读者。
A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile.
作家的诺言就像老虎的微笑。
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
写作开阔了心灵的视野。
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
在我的写作中如此诚实是一种宣泄。
My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
我的心充满激情，我的头押韵。
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.
作家写作品。每个人都会找借口。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。
I like sitting and writing with my buddies.
我喜欢和我的朋友们坐在一起写作。
The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.
医院在黑暗中显得黑乎乎的。
It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
现在我已经过了写作阶段。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
写出值得出版的东西，找到诚实的人出版它，让明智的人阅读它，这是成为作家的三大困难。
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。
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 no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".
“没有什么比内心承受着一个不为人知的故事更痛苦的了”。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
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。