祝好梦，晚安。

So You Want To Be A Writer?     

所以你想成为作家？

by Charles Bukowski 

查尔斯·布考斯基

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. 

如果她没有不顾一切从你体内涌出，别写。

Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. 

除非她从你的心里、你的灵魂、你的口中和你的肺腑不请自来，别写。

If you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it.

如果你是为了金钱和名誉，别写。

If you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. 

如果你是为了睡女人，别写。

If it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. 

如果你想想都觉得好难，别写。 

If you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. 

如果你想模仿别人写作，那就别再想写作了。 

If you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. 

如果你在等她从你体内咆哮而出，那就耐心等待。

If it never does roar out of you, do something else. 

如果她始终没有咆哮而出，那就做别的。

If you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready. 

如果你还得先给你老婆，或是女朋友，或是男朋友，或是你父母，或是任何其他人看你的文字，那你还没有准备好。

 

Don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self-love. 

不要无聊、沉闷、做作，不要沉浸在自我陶醉中。

Don't do it. 

别写。

Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket.

除非她像火箭一样冲出你的灵魂。

Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. 

除非你体内的太阳正在燃烧你的内脏，不然别写。

When it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. 

当机缘来了，若你被选中，写作自会发生，且会持续到你死去，或是她在你体内死去。

 

There is no other way.

没有其他的路了。

And there never was.

从来就没有其他的路。