A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
我们从未放手。永远。即使有标点符号。这是可怕的。我从来没见过任何唱片公司的人给尼尔写过一封电子邮件，却没有收到，而且还做了修改。
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
另一方面，如果你是一个录制自己歌曲的人，你基本上只能为一种声音和一种风格写作，这可能会让你窒息。这是一个真正的交易。
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
我的观点是，每本书都有自己的结构和长度。我已经写了三四本薄薄的书。也许下一部小说会很成功，但我不知道。
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
坐下来，把你脑子里想的都写下来，然后你就成了作家。但是，一个作家能够毫无怜悯地判断自己作品的价值，并摧毁其中的大部分。
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
嗯，我在回顾和记录我在记忆中看到的东西的过程中发现的一件事是，在我成为一名记者之前，我是一个观察力很强的人。
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
在我看来，自从我有了孩子，我变得更加富有和深沉。他们可能让我的写作速度慢了一段时间，但当我写作时，我有了更多的自我。
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
世界上到处都是小说，书中的人物只是说说而已。当然也有一些合法的类型，这就足够了。但在真实和持久的写作中，角色是。
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
我们总是觉得写歌很有创意。我们一起写;我们只是进入一个房间，或者偶尔进入跳蚤的车库。我们只是即兴创作，就像爵士音乐家一样。
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
写作的质量，真的。就这么简单。美丽的词语。作为一名歌手，能唱出很棒的歌曲是件很好的事情，歌曲里有美妙的歌词和强烈的感情。
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
写你想读的故事。人们会给你各种各样的写作建议，但如果你不写你喜欢的东西，也没有人会喜欢它。
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
我认为艺术的神秘之处在于，艺术家的关系本质上是与他们的作品，而不是权力，不是利润，不是他们自己，甚至不是他们的观众。
A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.
很多电视节目都是由团队、编剧和几个不同的导演组成的。这是制作电视的一种很棒、非常聪明的方式。不管电视出现多久，它都是有效的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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 work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。
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。
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes.
我是我生命的作者。不幸的是，我用钢笔写，我不能抹去我的错误。