A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
You never know what an artist is going to create next.
你永远不知道艺术家下一步要创作什么。
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
人是对自然自身的创造性反思。
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
我认为所有伟大的创新都是建立在拒绝之上的。
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
一个人必须为生活而死，才能完全成为一个创造者。
A mere copier of nature never produces anything great.
仅仅复制大自然永远不会产生任何伟大的东西。
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
我唯一保留的爵士乐元素就是即兴创作。
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
我的意思是，对我来说最重要的是想象力。
What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
驱动创造性的人的是我们看到的一切。
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
为了有创造力，你必须允许自己失败。
If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
如果你不能容忍任何风险，你就永远无法创新。
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
创造力是一个飞跃，然后看它在哪里。
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
我用了很多电影图像，类比和想象。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
如果有一本书你想读，但还没有写出来，那么你必须写出来。
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
当我们做的事情无关紧要时，我们更愿意尝试那些没有尝试过的。因此，许多发明都是以玩具的形式诞生的。
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。
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。
If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.
如果你花足够的时间和你的角色在一起，情节就会自然而然地发生。
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
那些不能创造和改造自己的人，必须满足于借来的姿态，二手的想法，适应而不是脱颖而出。