A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.
把我的专辑放在我自己的厂牌上对我来说是一次很好的经历。非常鼓舞人心。对我来说，这是一个新的开始，拥有所有这些创造性的自由是如此的自由和令人兴奋。
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.
他让生物变得比我想象的还要疯狂。他还加入了老式钢琴和古典民谣——那种怪异的超凡脱俗的氛围——所有这些元素都被收录到专辑中。
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
物理定律应该允许我们把东西一个分子一个分子地排列，甚至原子一个原子地排列，在某种程度上，我们不可避免地要开发一种技术，让我们做到这一点。
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
如果一个人一生都在从事一项发明，却没有办法为了人类的利益而开发这项发明，甚至没有办法为自己申请专利，那么他一定会非常痛苦地感到贫困。
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
在我的一生中，我有幸以我的想象力为生，而最重要的是看到我创造性的生活在成长。我接受的教育就是这么做的，我也因此而生活。
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。
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
写小说的乐趣在于，你总能发现一些新的方法，一种讲述故事和操纵人物的另类方式;这部小说的形式非常灵活。
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
神圣的火花从上帝的手指跳跃到亚当的手指，无论是在物理定律或大地定律、一首诗或一项政策、一首奏鸣曲或一台机械计算机中最终成形。
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
创造角色就像把一份食谱里的所有材料放在一起。我从我认识或认识的真实人物身上选取我喜欢或不喜欢的特征，并用它们来修饰和定义人物。
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
无论谁有幸生下一个角色，他都可以对死亡一笑置之。因为一个角色永远不会死!人会死，作家会死，创造的工具会死，但他所创造的永远不会死!
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
我的朋友都是喜欢创造酷东西的人。我们总有这样一个笑话，说的是那些想要创业却没有创造出有价值的东西的人。硅谷有很多这样的公司。
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
有时候项目会出乎意料地启动，有时候你可以在草图和想法发表之前花上几年的时间。有很多作者我都很想举例说明。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
有创造力的人有能力将自己从社会压力的网中解放出来，而我们其他人则被困在其中。他能够质疑我们其他人接受的假设。
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
一个真正有创造力的人会摆脱所有自我强加的限制。
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
生活给我们带来的最大的刺激是创造、构建和发展一些有用的东西。我们常常没有认识到并赞扬这种创造精神。正是这种精神创造了我们的就业机会。
Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.
想象并不总是意味着往盒子外看，而是从一个封闭的盒子里看一个不同的世界。
Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art.
写一些值得为之奋斗的东西。因为这就是改变事物的方式。这就是你创造艺术的方式。
For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, the ideological, or the abstract.
对我来说，就像大多数小说家一样，每一个真正富有想象力的事件都是从那里开始的，从事实开始，从具体开始，而不是从哲学、意识形态或抽象开始。