A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
我想这就是园艺吸引人的地方:它是一个人在创作时最接近现实的地方。
A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.
空白页不是空白。它充满了潜力……这是等待中的杰作——你的。
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
我不害怕改变，破坏形象等等，因为这幅画有它自己的生命。
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.
最后，创造力不只是我们选择放入的东西，而是我们选择剔除的东西。
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
总的来说，我的写作受到生活的影响，受到发生在我身上的所有事情和我的行为的影响。
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
我对书的想法比我这辈子能用到的还多。我很幸运。
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
我正在努力寻找一种不那么容易被期望调节的语言。
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
像大多数作家一样，我写发生在我身上的事情，因为这涉及到最少的研究。
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
我仍然偶尔会写短篇小说，偶尔也会看小说，但这并不是我想做的。
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
创造了一千种东西的人和没有创造任何东西的人，都有一个共同的愿望:创造一些东西。
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old-it is the new combinations that make them new.
没有故事是凭空而来的;新故事从旧故事中诞生——是新的组合使它们成为新的。
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from
一件事会引出另一件事，有人会想出一个即兴重复段或一条线，或我们以此为基础构建的东西
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
没有变化，就没有创新、创造力或改进的动力。那些发起变革的人将有更好的机会来管理不可避免的变革。
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
写作是一个不断发现的过程。
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
科学是建立在事实之上的，正如房子是用石头砌成的一样。但是收集事实并不是一门科学，正如一堆石头并不是一所房子一样。
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
你需要一定的勇气才能成为一名作家。
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。
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。