A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
写作是唯一的一件事,当我写作时,我觉得我不应该做别的事情。
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
书籍选择作者;创造的行为并不完全是理性的和有意识的。
I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
令我震惊的是,众议院领导层竟然对密西西比人创造就业机会置之不理。
Globalization will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
全球化将使我们的社会更加富有创造力和繁荣,但也更加脆弱。
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
创造的人是罕见的;做不到的人很多。因此,后者更强。
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
我允许艺术家们演奏,只要他们觉得自己有理由继续创作。
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
小说的结构——它的技巧——是我永远不会厌倦的东西。
Man thinks first before he writes to build; Nature writes first before she designs to create.
人在写作之前先思考;大自然在设计创造之前先会写作。
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
要创造一个看似真实但可能是虚构的过去,你需要一种虚构的语言。
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
很久以前,我就学会了接受这样一个事实:并非我所创造的每样东西都能见天日。
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
天才的主要标志不是完美,而是创新,开拓新的领域。
All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
我们要记住的是,我之前提到过,我们都是艺术家。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
停止学习和创造的那一天一定是最无聊的一天。
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
梦是一种纯粹的想象行为,它证明所有人都有一种创造力,如果在醒着的时候有这种创造力,那么每个人都会成为但丁或莎士比亚。
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
艺术始于模仿,止于创新。
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
发明是一种技能,有些人有,有些人没有。但你可以学习如何发明。
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境,我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因,是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则,就会扼杀创新。
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
我们常常在不知不觉中阅读,以寻求一种比我们自己更有独创性的思想。