[al:新概念英语（四）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（美音）] [ti:What Every Writer Wants] [by:更多学习内容，请到yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:00.87]Lesson 39 [00:03.71]What every writer wants [00:12.95]How do professional writers ignore what they were taught at school about writing? [00:21.57]I have known very few writers, [00:24.56]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. [00:36.13]They have a character, perhaps two; [00:39.10]they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; [00:50.66]one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, [00:57.61]then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. [01:01.38]I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school. [01:07.35]In the breaking and remaking, in the timing interweaving, beginning afresh, [01:14.80]the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began. [01:22.83]This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination. [01:34.32]A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another and it is gone [01:41.06]but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. [01:46.68]Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. [01:52.77]I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books; [01:57.01]like adolescents they stand before the mirror, [02:00.46]and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. [02:06.15]For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, [02:12.37]winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, [02:17.19]begging response from those around them. [02:20.57]Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. [02:28.15]He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore. [02:34.63]This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, [02:39.63]to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please. [02:51.65]A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back [02:56.85]that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. [03:03.60]For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, [03:08.09]has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, [03:15.18]no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. [03:20.66]A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; [03:24.70]he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, [03:30.73]and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, [03:36.70]from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.