A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
创造
Creation
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.
我不知道我的歌是关于什么的。我不会坐下来写任何东西。它们是关于你想要的任何东西。我不选主题。我只是开始。
I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
我可以写一个程序，让你打破对音乐文件的复制保护。但是我不能写一个程序来为你把新的连接焊接到芯片上。
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
不，我不会写治疗，我认为治疗有危险。,你……你以散文的形式写下你最初的兴奋和热情。
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
我在一家旧书店全职工作。我起床了。我喝了一杯咖啡。我想，我最不想做的事情就是写作。然后我走到电脑前写。
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
读者在阅读时必须有创造性。他必须设法让这东西活着。一个好的读者在阅读时必须做一定量的工作。
The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
这些歌是关于我们思考的事情，我们把它们写下来，当你听它们的时候，不管你认为它是关于什么的……就是这样!
Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.
有时候少即是多。是关于种子的。想想这棵巨大的树，你认为它是如此美丽，但它是从这颗种子开始的。
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
我仍然有一份全职的工作，这就是为什么我花了五年的时间才写了一本书的原因，也是为什么我下个星期还没有写完另一本书的原因。
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.
我相信无中生有，即使在莎士比亚的作品中也是如此。我想知道他从哪里弄来的这个东西，他是怎么处理这个东西的。
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
有时候我会听到一个短语或单词，然后把它写在我的黑色小笔记本上(一个作家最好的伴侣)，然后再回过头来，围绕它构思一个情节。
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
人之所以是造物的杰作，就是因为他相信自己有自由意志。
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
后来有一天，我想，如果能把我的文字和图画结合起来，做成一本完整的书，那将是多么美妙的一件事。我就是这样开始写儿童读物的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
绘画做了我们不能做的事——它把一个三维世界带入一个二维平面。
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。
Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.
书籍传递信息，让体验有机会发挥创造力。
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
几乎所有情况下，富有创造力的少数人都让世界变得更美好。
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
在你头脑的任何一个角落留下一个空白，你的创造力就会立刻填补它。
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
没有想象力，就没有创造力。没有创造力，就没有一切。