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创造
Creation
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.
每当我有什么想法的时候，我一定要把它写下来，这样当我们坐下来写专辑的时候，我就不用凭空想象了。我不需要即兴创作，也不需要自发的艺术创作。每当创造力来临时，我就会利用它。
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
蛋白霜其实就是泡沫。泡沫到底是什么，除了一大群泡沫?什么是泡沫?它基本上是一个非常脆弱的蛋白质网状结构，上面覆盖着水。我们在这个结构中加入糖，这就加强了它。但事情可能会出错，也确实会出错。
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.
还有什么更好的方式来重新创造这种形式，而不是扔掉几乎99%的所有已经用它做过的东西，从一个全新的画布开始，从头开始重新创造它呢?数字漫画给了我这样做的机会，而数字制作给了我这样做的机会。
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.
我先考虑所有的事情。我思考场景:故事和人物，我想说的，我会思考几天，直到一切都被锁定，然后当我拿起一个乐器，它就会掉出来。但是这首歌已经在我的脑海里准备好了。
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
但是古希腊和古罗马的人们并不相信创造力来自于人类，对吧?人们相信创造力是一种神圣的伴随精神，从遥远而未知的源头，出于遥远而未知的原因，降临到人类身上。
And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.
然后写作，就像我刚刚找到一样，你知道吗?就像你刚刚发现了你最喜欢的冰淇淋的味道，突然间它就来了。“这就是我在过去三十年里应该做的事情。我在想什么?“所以我是，然后我加入了，然后我不得不坚持下去。
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
我们从旋律和乐器开始尝试为诗歌和合唱找出好的旋律。我们有时会接着讲歌词，所以我们会开始哼唱一段旋律，寻找一些东西，看看音乐把你带到哪里，你想说什么，然后从那里开始。
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
人被赋予了理性，拥有创造的能力，这样他就可以为他被赋予的东西做出贡献。但到目前为止，他还不是一个创造者，只是一个破坏者。森林不断消失，河流干涸，野生动物灭绝，气候被破坏，土地日益贫瘠和丑陋。
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
想象力不仅是人类想象不存在的事物的独特能力，也是所有发明和创新的源泉。它具有无可争议的最具变革性和启示性的能力，正是这种能力使我们能够同情那些我们从未分享过经历的人。
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
因为，你知道，韧性——如果你从淘金热的角度来考虑，那么你现在会非常沮丧，因为最后一块金子会消失。但好的一面是，有了创新，就没有最后一块金块了。每一件新事物都会带来两个新问题和两个新机会。
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
首先是一个想法。然后，角色开始从这个想法中进化出来。最后，角色占主导地位:情节只是这些人可能会做什么或会成为什么人的一个功能。一切都得从他们的个性中流淌出来;否则，它就不会在情感上吸引人，也不可信。
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
写小说最难的部分是找到很长的时间来写作:对我来说，这意味着大部分时间都要在周六和周日写作。但我总是在想我的角色，在偷来的瞬间写下我的想法，希望周末到来时我能弄懂它们。
KEEP EXPLORING
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
只要一支笔和一瓶墨水，你就能看到你能做什么，看到你能做出什么样的质地、色调和颜色，这是一件很神奇的事情。
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
大量的创造力是关于模式识别的，而你需要识别模式的是大量的数据。你的大脑通过记录每天很容易看到的随机细节和异常现象来收集数据:这些怪癖和变化，最终会累积成洞见。
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
你可以尽可能多地从前辈身上汲取经验，但之后就得靠你自己去创造一些新的东西。
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
如果我们考虑的不是对象，而是创建对象的过程，简而言之，我们没有约束。我们手中掌握的过程，让我们能够创造出各种规模的结构，这些结构曾经是我们做梦也想不到的。
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
设计对我是个启示。这就像把没有生命的东西赋予它形式、形状、实质和生命。
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
研究就是去看别人都看过的东西，去想别人没想过的东西。