A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
写小说并不仅仅是一次跨越边境的购物之旅，而是在想象中的工厂、街道和大教堂里度过数小时甚至数年的时间。
Writers often feel as if they exist on the periphery of life. By being observers, we feel a bit detached from the actions of the moment. It's difficult to blend in, to become a part of things.
作家们常常觉得自己好像生活在边缘。作为旁观者，我们觉得自己有点脱离当下的行为。很难融入其中，很难融入其中。
Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.
有时候我写心情，我想每隔几天写一首歌。有时我可能三周不写一首歌。这取决于当时它对我的打击。
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
当我打棒球的时候，我还在写歌，还在听磁带。我肯定我会花很多时间在漩涡里让这些疲劳的骨头休息，所以我会想着音乐。
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。
The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.
现实生活和故事的区别在于生活有意义，而故事必须有意义。前者并不总是显而易见的，而后者总是必须在结束之前显现出来。
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
我唯一的文学抱负就是写一部好小说，然后隐退到沙漠里的茅屋里，摆出莲花的姿势，静下心来，静下心来，沉思默想我的小说
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
当我写作时，我从不笑或微笑。当我写了一上午的信回家吃午饭时，我妻子说我看起来就像刚参加完葬礼回家一样。这不是吹牛。这是一种疾病。
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作，否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
我不是在写音乐。艾德会写一段音乐。我会听一听，想出一个旋律，然后我们会安排它。我们把它放在一起，然后我给我的旋律写歌词。
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
突然间，所有关于写作、编辑和报纸的想象，所有这些关于我是谁在读这篇文章，以及其他人可能是谁的假设，所有这些，都变得如此残酷无情!
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
我认为写作与生活并无二致。写作是一种双重生活，作者经历每件事两次。一次在现实中，一次在那面永远在前方或后方等待的镜子里。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
任何被设计成无害的东西都不值得你浪费时间——生命本身就是相当无礼的，就像它以死亡告终一样。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。