A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
写作
Writing
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
我明白了写作时的感受，不应该像拜伦勋爵站在山顶上，而应该像幼儿园里串珠的孩子，开心、专注、静静地一颗一颗地串起来。
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.
这些事情都安排好了，我在河边搭了一个临时的遮阳篷，忙了三、四天，把我们这次旅行的经过写下来，让总督知道。
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
就是那种和我写作同时出现的音乐。当然，其中一些是邪恶的。但我认为只有一个方向是可以推动的，没有人在推动。
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
无论我走到哪里，都会有人问我，我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是，他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
我想写的所有剧本都是抓住观众的喉咙不放的，而不是表现一种你可以观察到的情绪然后离开。
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
用英语写作是一个很大的挑战。我不想让其他词曲作者为我写歌。我想保留西班牙语歌曲的精神。我在英语里和在西班牙语里是一样的夏奇拉。
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
写作的美妙之处在于，你不必像脑外科医生那样，第一次就把事情做好。你总能做得更好，找到准确的词，恰当的短语，跳跃的比喻。
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
起初，我看到一个故事的图片在我的脑海中。然后通过问自己问题来创造故事。我猜你可能会把它称为“如果-如果-然后”的方法来写和说明。
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
你一开始写不好东西。你一开始写的都是废话，你认为这是好东西，然后渐渐地你就能写得更好了。这就是为什么我说最宝贵的品质之一是坚持。
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
当然，写你自己的人生故事的全部意义在于尽可能地诚实，揭示关于你自己的一切，因为这个原因，这是最私人的，也可能是最有趣的。
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
当我们在电视上看到我们的飞机成为突发新闻时，那是最超现实的体验。很多女人都在哭。有一位先生正在写日记，他哭了。看到这一点并不容易。
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
写作是一种治疗;有时候，我在想，所有那些不写作、不作曲、不画画的人，是如何摆脱人类所固有的疯狂、忧郁、恐慌和恐惧的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好，要么写得不好。
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。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
一个女人要想写小说，就必须有钱，有自己的房间。
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
愤世嫉俗者只是受挫的浪漫主义者。
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。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。