作家的根本体验是无助。这并不是说要将写作与活着相区分,而是说要纠正那种幻想,即认为创作就是一路高歌,得心应手,认为作家是一些运气好、能够做自己希望做的事情的人:信心十足,定期将他写在一张纸上的玩艺拿去打印。但写作并不是个性的倾泻。而大多数作家则将许多时间消耗于种种折磨之中:想写,却不能写;想写得不同,却无法写得不同。终其一生,都在等待被一个念头召唤,而岁月消耗殆尽。唯一真实的意志练习也是否定的:我们对于自己所写 The fundamental experience of a writer is helpless. This is not to say that writing is to be distinguished from living, but rather to correct the illusion that creation is the way to sing and handy, thinking that writers are good people who can do what they want: confident, Regularly write the stuff he wrote on a piece of paper for printing. But writing is not a personal dump. Most writers, however, spend so much time in torturing: they want to write, they can not write; they want to write differently, but they can not write differently. Throughout his life, are waiting to be summoned a thought, and the years run out. The only true will practice is also negative: we write about ourselves