关于Writing（写作）的英语名言

Writing is not literature unless it gives the reader pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said.
写作不算作文学，除非它给予读者一种快感，这种快感不仅来自所说的事物，而且来自它是怎样被描述的。

• Rupert Brooke
  鲁珀特·布鲁克

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
来自心理的话回到心里。

• Coleridge
  柯勒律治

The four greatest novelists the world has ever known, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostouevsky, wrote their respective languages very indifferently. It proves that if you can tell stories, create character, devise incidents, and if you have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write it.
世界知名的四大小说家：巴尔扎克、狄更斯、托尔斯泰、朵斯托也夫斯基用他们各自的语言随意地写作。它说明如果你善于讲故事，创造人物，安排情节，如果你写得真诚和有感情，不管怎样写都无所谓。

• Somcrest Maugham
  萨默士特·毛姆

Truth is the best guide to make a man write forcibly, naturally, and delicately.
真理最能教导人写得有力，写得自然，写得优美。

• La Bruyere
  拉布汝耶

The things that I have written fastest have always pleased the most.
我写得最快的东西常常是最令人喜欢的。

• Chesterfield
  切斯特菲尔德

Of all that has been written, I love only that which was written in blood.
在一切写作中，我只喜欢写得有血有肉的东西。

• Nietzsche
  尼采

Writing comes easily if you have something to say.
如果你能言之有物，作品便很容易地写出来了。

• Unknown
  佚名

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well bred man.
据说好的散文应该像一个有良好教养的人的谈话。

• Somerest Maugham
  萨默士特·毛姆

In composition I do not think second thoughts are best.
在写作方面我不认为第二次的思考是最好的。

• Byron
  拜伦

Let your literary composition be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
把你的文学作品至少保藏九年不和读者见面。

• Horace
  贺拉斯

A man who teaches writing should certainly, I think, write two or three books in his life to show that he has at least tried to practise the craft he discourses upon.
一个教写作的人，我认为，必须一生中写两三本书来证明他已把所讲述的技巧付诸实践了。

• Unknown
  佚名

A writer’s problem does not change．He himself changes and the world he lives in changes, but his problem remain the same. It is always how to write truly, and, having found what it is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads.
一个作家的问题不会改变，他自己在变，他所生活的世界也在变，但他保持不变，那就是怎样忠实地写作，而且一但发现了真实，他便把它安排得成为读者的一部分经验。

• Hamingway
  海明威

The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business.
写作之成为生意经确是一件最糟糕不过的事。

• Unknown
  佚名

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eat a cut let. But he should do that.
作家不需吃整头羊，才能讲出羊肉的味道，他只需吃吃羊肉片即可，但他必须这样做。

• Somerest Maugham
  萨默士特·毛姆

Either write thing worth reading, or do things worth writing．
写值得读的东西，或者从事值得写的事。

• Benjamin Franklin
  本杰明·富兰克林

The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
写作的唯一目的便是使得读者怎样较好地享受生活或者较好地忍受生活。

• Samuel Johnson
  塞缪尔·约翰逊

I’ll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
我要拿过笔墨，写出我热恋的心情。

• Shakespeare
  莎士比亚

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
您要写到墨水干涸，然后再用眼泪润湿你的笔尖，

Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
写下几行动人的诗句，

That may discover such integrity.
表明您的爱情是如何真诚。

• Shakespeare
  莎士比亚

To be a well—favoured man is a gift of fortune: but to write and read comes by nature.
一个人长得漂亮是偶然的运气，会写字念书才是天生的本领。

• Shakespeare
  莎士比亚