《瘋狂英語》精選輯:寫并苦惱著

I Write, I Suffer

Nikki Gemmell: The thing that I worry about when I write is, and I think its one of the hardest things to do, is keeping people's attention. I'm 1)paranoid that I'm going to be boring and I think one of the hardest things is keeping people turning the page. And one of my, one of my favorite writers is Tim Winton and I just love his narrative drive. I can remember I'm picking up The Riders and you know I'm starting to read it about eight o'clock one night and then 4 a.m. the next morning I was still there, I just had to finish it before I went to sleep even though I had work the next day. And, uh, I just love. You know when you find a book and 2)ferociously you want to devour it. And so for me, I'm constantly trying to paid back my writing and to increase the narrative pull on it, pull of it, so that you know people are just going through it like a 3)steamroller. So in that way I'm thinking of the audience, I don't want to lose them.

Anson Cameron: I think the hardest thing about writing and this is probably 4)appropriate for any form of art or any huge project you take on in life is, is the thought in the back of your mind all the while, sometimes, and I suspect that books don't change the world very much, that's what I find hardest about writing but then at other times I think it does matter and it has got the power to change people. And if I look at myself I think most of my moral and ethical makeup comes from books. So if I look back at that, it fills me with a sense of self-worth but there are many hours when you're writing a book when you, wonder what you're doing, but what's the point of it all, does it matter.

Janet Evanovich: For me it's definitely 5)transition, I find the transition to be very difficult. Once I'm in a scene I'm fine, you know once I'm writing about action, once I'm doing dialogue I'm ok I can run with that, but I spend a lot of time sitting and finding out how to get from one place to the next. And I think it's critical because this is what really holds it together, this is what makes it easier for the reader to move on, and this is, this is really where I spend all of my time.

Roger Mcdonald: There was a, a 6)bricklayer working across the road and the bricklayer started in the morning at seven o'clock and finished at five o'clock and by the end of the day he had the front wall up. And I was working on a poem that day and by the end of the day I was exactly where I'd began, basically you know the draft after draft and I was facing a blank sheet at the end of the day. I said, "Look at that, wouldn't it be fantastic to be a bricklayer, at least there's something concrete at the end of the day!?So I can relate to Markay's statement and "it is 7)frustrating 8)grappling with 9)intangibles, trying to give shape and form to intangibles," matter.

Nikki Gemmell (from her book SHIVER): The touch of an iceberg, a blizzard, a lover, of a camera stuck to the skin on my face, of cold-like glass cutting into my skin, of a 10)snowflake, of a dead man, of a tongue on my eye.
注釋:
1. paranoid adj. 類似妄想癥的
2. ferociously adv. （口）十分強烈地，極度地
3. steamroller n. 壓路機
4. appropriate adj. 適當?shù)?br /> 5. transition n. 轉(zhuǎn)變，過渡
6. bricklayer n. 磚匠
7. frustrating adj. 令人灰心的，令人沮喪的
8. grapple v. 格斗
9. intangible n. 無形的東西
10. snowflake n. 雪花