[al:新概念英语（四）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:What Every Writer Wants] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.52]Lesson 39 [00:03.44]What every writer wants [00:11.73]How do professional writers ignore what they were taught at school about writing? [00:19.84]I have known very few writers, [00:22.18]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. [00:33.22]They have a character, perhaps two; [00:35.91]they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; [00:47.54]one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, [00:53.21]then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. [00:57.73]I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school. [01:03.33]In the breaking and remaking, in the timing interweaving, beginning afresh, [01:10.07]the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began. [01:17.55]This organic process, [01:19.69]often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination. [01:28.29]A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another and it is gone [01:35.34]but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. [01:41.10]Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. [01:47.27]I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books; [01:51.51]like adolescents they stand before the mirror, [01:54.77]and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. [01:59.96]For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, [02:05.78]winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, [02:10.63]begging response from those around them. [02:13.65]Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. [02:21.69]He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore. [02:26.49]This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, [02:31.13]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. [02:40.70]A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back [02:46.26]that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. [02:52.68]For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, [02:56.48]has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, [03:02.18]no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. [03:07.86]A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; [03:12.04]he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, [03:17.70]and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, [03:23.02]from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.