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创造
Creation
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
创造新事物不是靠智力，而是靠从内在需要出发的游戏本能。创造性的头脑会玩弄它所喜爱的东西。
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
写一首歌很像作家。是的，我们都有写作的工具(我希望每个人都有大脑!)，但这并不会让我们突然成为畅销书作家。
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
我是一个发明家。我之所以对长期趋势感兴趣，是因为一项发明必须在它完成的地方有意义，而不是在它开始的地方。
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
创造性的行为就像写信一样。一封信是一个项目;除非你知道自己想说什么，想对谁说，否则你不会坐下来写信。
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
漫画艺术。我把漫画当漫画来写，我有机会讲故事。简单。基本的。让角色有激情，而不是包装。那就是我的家乡。
To write the essential book, the only true book, a great writer does not need to invent because the book already exists inside each one of us and merely needs translation.
要写一本重要的书，唯一一本真正的书，一个伟大的作家不需要发明，因为这本书已经存在于我们每个人的内心，只需要翻译。
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
学校教育的主要目标应该是培养有能力做新事情的男性和女性，而不是简单地重复其他几代人做过的事情。
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
试图写一部宏大的宇宙戏剧必然会导致神话。在越来越大的空间和时间范围内，试图让知识取代无知是科学。
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
当我坐马车旅行时，当我饱餐一顿后散步时，当我在夜里无法入睡时;正是在这种情况下，思想流动得最好、最丰富。
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
如果我有一个预先设定好的情节，我为什么要经历写小说的痛苦呢?小说至少对我来说是一种探索和发现。
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石，然后再把它凿开，才能找到大理石中的人物。
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
因此，这种以某种方式锚定过去，以某种重要的方式锚定过去而不重复过去，而是在过去的基础上建立新的东西:这才是重要的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
当想象力不得不与理解分开时，它是一件可怜的事情。
Craft is part of the creative process.
工艺是创造过程的一部分。
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
小说，说到底，是一个容器，一个你试图将你的故事倾注其中的形状。
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
我们可以说，这种生活是值得过的，因为它是我们创造出来的。
The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
想象力是通往任何地方的黄金之路。
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
当一个人描绘一个理想时，他不需要限制自己的想象力。