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　　What every writer wants

　　作家之所需

　　I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respect,

　　confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first

　　set pen to paper. They have a character, perhaps two; they are in that condition

　　of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; all admit radical changes of

　　destination once the journey has begun; one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine

　　months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish

　　Highlands. I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at

　　school. In the breaking and remaking, in the timing, interweaving, beginning

　　afresh, the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not

　　consciously in his mind when he began. This organic process, often leading to

　　moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination. A

　　blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone; but

　　something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. Sometimes the

　　yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers

　　who read nothing but their own books; like adolescents they stand before the

　　mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. For

　　the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out

　　hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around

　　them. Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to

　　explain a crime or a love affair. He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable

　　bore.

　　我认识的作家寥寥无几，然而凡是我所认识和尊敬的作家，都立即承认在他们动笔时，不清楚要写什么，怎么写。他们心中只在一个或两个角色。他们处于急切不安的状态，而被当作是灵感。他们无不承认，一旦“旅程”开始，“目的地”常有急剧的变化。据我所知，有位作家花了9个月的时间写了一部关于克什米尔的小说，后来却把整个故事背景换成了苏格兰高地。我从未听说过任何一位作家像我们在学校那样，动笔前先列什么提纲。作家在剪裁修改、构思时间、穿插情节、以至从头重写的过程中，会领悟到素材中很多东西是他刚动笔时所未意识到的。这种有机的加工过程往往达到不寻常自我发现的境界，具有难以言表的构思魅力。一个朦胧的形象出现在作家的脑海里，他左添一笔，右添一笔，形象反而消逝了;可是，好像还有什么东西存在着，不把它捕捉到，作家是不会罢休的。有时，一个作家一本书写完了，但兴奋仍不消散。我听说一些作家，除了自己的书外，别的书一概不读，犹如希腊神话中那位漂亮的少年，站在镜前，不能辨认自身的真面目。由于这个原因，作家喋喋不休地谈论自己的书，挖掘其隐晦的含义，询问周围人的反应。作家如此行事当然被人误解。他还不如给人讲一个犯罪案件或一个恋爱故事。顺便说一句，他也是个不可饶恕的令人厌烦的人。

　　New words and expressions 生词和短语

　　cofess

　　v.承认

　　inspiration

　　n.灵感

　　Kashmir

　　n.克什米尔

　　interweave

　　v.交织

　　afresh

　　adv.重新

　　discern