晨讀英語美文100篇六級(jí)What Every Writer Wants

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.75]Passage 91. What Every Writer Wants [00:09.10]I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respect, [00:15.67]confess at once that they have little idea where they are going [00:19.60]when they first set pen to paper. [00:22.89]They have a character, perhaps two; [00:25.62]they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; [00:29.89]all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; [00:35.26]one, to my certain knowledge,spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, [00:41.16]then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highland. [00:45.10]I never heard of anyone making an “outline”, as we were taught at school. [00:50.02]In the breaking and remaking,in the timing, interweaving,beginning again, [00:56.04]the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began. [01:02.93]This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, [01:09.39]is of an indescribable fascination. [01:13.11]A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone; [01:19.45]but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. [01:24.70]Sometimes the passion within a writer outlives a book he has written. [01:29.96]I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books; [01:34.88]like adolescents they stand before the mirror, [01:37.94]and still cannot understand the exact outline of the vision before them. [01:42.32]For the same reason, writers talk endlessly about their own books, [01:47.58]digging up hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them. [01:54.46]Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: [01:58.73]he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. [02:02.79]He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore. [02:07.92]This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, [02:13.39]to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, [02:16.45]can be his undoing:he has begun to write to please. [02:21.82]A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back [02:27.29]that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. [02:32.65]For this reason also the writer, like any other artist,has no resting place, [02:38.99]no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, [02:42.50]no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. [02:46.98]A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; [02:51.90]he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, [02:57.27]and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, [03:02.74]from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.

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