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创造
Creation
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
我过去常常从硬纸板上剪下吉他来模仿吉他的外观。我用一个向后的网球拍打了一段时间，然后用纸板做了一个刻度。
We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
我们试着说它是有创意的，在某种程度上也是有创意的，但它是一门生意，因为在今天，跨越边界的成本因素。
Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that’s what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet.
一切都被写下来了，一切都被说出来了，一切都被创造出来了:这是上帝在创造世界之前听到的，那时还没有什么。
One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.
当我搬到北部的时候，有一件事发生了改变，那就是我对不同的材料产生了兴趣。我开始做石凳是因为我看到了石头。
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
我最喜欢的写作形式是十四行诗或十四行诗式，你知道，有三节或两节组成结束语。
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
经常发生的情况是，两个人对一个机械问题的推理是正确的，他们想的一样，发明的一样，彼此之间没有任何交流。
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
我不想写公式。我不想把这些书弄得像香肠一样。每一本书都是不一样的，这对我来说需要很大的创造力。
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
我总是认为，让我创作故事的是氛围和视觉形象，然后我用人物塑造故事，而不是反过来。
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
因为，如果一个优秀的演说家，从来没有像他这样能言善辩，不了解事实，不说出事实的真相——在创造中还有比这更可怕的东西吗?
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
当我写一本书的时候，我发现了一个故事，每一页都在慢慢前进，在黑暗中发现了什么，在你写作的地方。
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。
There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
如果你是你自己，这个星球上的每个人都有发挥创造力和意识的空间。如果你想成为别人，那就没有。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
这就是我对摇滚乐的最初兴趣所在——那种用自己的方式重塑世界的感觉。
An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
一个充满意图的物体——它有力量，它是宝藏，我们被它吸引。一个没有意图的物体——它是随机的，它是模仿的，它排斥我们。这就像一封要扔掉的垃圾邮件。
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
独创性，加上勇气，加上努力，等于奇迹。
Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.
创造力，很简单，是一种真正的兴趣与主动性的结合。
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
独创性意味着敢于超越公认的规范。
It's hard to force creativity and humor.
要想激发创造力和幽默感是很难的。