A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
我总是否认这一点，但我想我真正想说的是，我写作是为了震惊……我挖得很深，把当时使我着迷的各种丑恶的东西都挖了出来。
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
近年来，我一直在写作，因为我很幸运能在美食电视的世界里工作，去旅行，品尝美食，并向业内最好的厨师学习烹饪。
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
刚开始的时候，我的背景是制作、写作和在电视上表演，我真的很怀念那种，那种来自“我自己”的讲故事的创作过程。
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解，只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍，却无话可说。
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
许多年轻的作家会犯这样的错误，把一个贴好邮票、写好地址的信封放在信封里，信封足够大，可以把手稿寄回来。这对编辑来说诱惑太大了。
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.
如果我不得不放弃其他一切，只保留工作的一个方面，我就必须继续写作，因为我热爱写作。是的，我也喜欢表演。但我不能放弃写作材料。
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
没有人会为了读到中间而去读神秘故事。他们把它读到最后。如果失望了，他们就不会再买了。第一页卖那本书。最后一页是你下一本书的卖点。
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
导演是一种更实用的体验，你必须处理时间和金钱的限制，这些限制迫使你在写作时做出一些你不需要做的决定。
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
作家很少选择那些自成一体的人物作为朋友，他们从不惹麻烦，从不不开心或生病，从不犯错误，总是在别人给他们找钱的时候数数。
A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
一本书来了，说:“给我写信。”我的工作就是尽我所能地为它服务，这永远不够好，但我所能做的就是倾听它，做它告诉我的，并与它合作。
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
运气吗?我对运气一无所知。我从来没有寄希望于此，我害怕寄希望于此的人。幸运对我来说是另一回事:努力工作——并意识到什么是机遇，什么不是。
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
我宁愿被攻击也不愿被忽视。因为你对一个作家所能做的最糟糕的事就是对他的作品保持沉默。袭击一个城镇是件坏事;但挨饿更糟糕。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
鸟唱歌不是因为它有答案，而是因为它有一首歌。
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。
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。
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 first draft of anything is shit.
任何东西的初稿都是垃圾。
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
你只能一次把一个单词写在纸上。