A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.
我认为好的作品最终会出现，人们喜欢它，而糟糕的作品不会。嗯,没有。糟糕的写作确实会出现，因为有些人喜欢它。
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.
没有什么比写下自己的论点更能使思维过程变得敏锐的了。在口头讨论中被忽视的弱点在书面讨论中就会变得非常明显。
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
评论音乐或任何东西都是写作的工作。如果你在你所写的领域有经验是件好事，但是写作是你所做的。
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
任何对小说表示愤怒和厌恶的评论家都是荒谬的。他或她就像一个全副武装的人，袭击了一个热的奶油软糖圣代。
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。
It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.
它没有让我为写作或“委托书”做准备。然而，它迫使我离开了地方检察官的办公室。我没有拿到县支票。
If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.
如果对艺术家来说，他的艺术中没有什么神秘的东西，那么它就没有意义……对我来说，每一个艺术行为都是解开一个谜。
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
当我做得很好的时候，我有一种很好的温暖的感觉，但是这种快乐被每天开始的痛苦抵消了。让我们面对现实吧，写作是地狱。
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
我最喜欢的写作形式是十四行诗或十四行诗式，你知道，有三节或两节组成结束语。
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
要写出一本伟大的书，你必须选择一个伟大的主题。跳蚤身上永远写不出一本伟大而不朽的书，虽然有许多人试过它。
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
如果一个人没有足够的天赋成为小说家，没有足够的智慧成为律师，并且他的手太不稳而不能执行操作，他就会成为一名记者。
A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
一个完成的故事可以使一个人在光明和文学意义上永生;但一个未完成的故事暗示着另一种不朽，更本质，也更奇怪。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
一个人要想成为伟大的好人，就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
一个好的故事应该引发讨论、辩论、辩论……偶尔的酒吧斗殴。
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
诗歌是一种情感找到了它的思想，思想找到了语言。
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 best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
告诉人们气候变化的最好方式是通过非小说类作品。在这方面有大量优秀的文学作品。