A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
当你在做某件事的时候，写一首好歌的真正危险在于，它可能会让你认为，只有在你情绪高涨的时候，才能重复这首歌。
This is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
这是大多数“教化”或“宣传”文学的弱点。没有多样性……事实上，你不可能在不给魔鬼应得的报应的情况下给上帝应得的报应。
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
我写剧本是因为写对话是唯一一种体面的自相矛盾的方式。我提出一个立场，反驳它，反驳反驳，再反驳反驳。
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
这位艺术家没有时间听批评家们的批评。那些想成为作家的人读评论，那些想写作的人没有时间读评论。
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
在所有的写作中，没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更容易出错，因为没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更有野心超越他人。
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
很明显，我更喜欢写小说，但我非常严肃地对待我的新闻工作，我喜欢在小说之间写作。这让我有机会到外面的世界去走走。
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
你需要走出你的舒适区去写一些有趣的，引人注目的，和其他人写的不同的歌。
I only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.
我现在写它，只是因为我逐渐相信，没有危险的想法，这并不会变得不那么危险，当写出来的真诚和仔细的英语。
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人，都能看出写传记有多难。
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
真正的作家是真正写作的人。天才是一种发明，就像失火之后的燃烬一样。工作本身就是良药。你必须喜欢它胜过被爱。
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
在报业工作的一生教会你的一件事就是节奏——你把所有的时间都花在确保读者能完成你所写的东西上。
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
顺便说一下，如果你有外向的勇气去做，有即兴发挥的想象力，生活中的一切都是可以写出来的。创造力最大的敌人是自我怀疑。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
作家是这样一种人，他能把人们想要表达的想法和情感表达出来，但却不确定应该如何表达，甚至是否应该表达。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。
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。
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为，你不妨承认这一点。