《世界上最动人的书信》 作者：海明威
弗朗西斯?司各特?菲茨杰拉德致玛丽亚?曼尼斯（2）
弗朗西斯?司各特?菲茨杰拉德致玛丽亚?曼尼斯（2）
Your sincere admirer,
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E．B．怀特致R小姐
E．B．怀特（1899－1985），生于纽约蒙特弗农，毕业于康奈尔大学。他曾多年担任《纽约人》杂志的专职撰稿人。怀特是一位颇有造诣的散文家、幽默作家、诗人和讽刺作家。几代美国儿童之所以熟悉他，是因为他的第一流的儿童读物 《小斯图亚特》（1945） 和 《夏洛特的网》（1952）；一代又一代学生和作者熟悉他，因为他是 《风格的要素》的合著者 (兼修订者)之一。《风格的要素》是一本关于作文和惯用法的很有价值的小册子，最初由在康奈尔大学教过怀特英语的小威廉?斯特朗克教授撰写。本篇是他给一位文学爱好者的回信。
亲爱的R小姐：
17岁的年轻人常常觉得未来非常可怕，甚至是令人沮丧的。你应该读一读我1916年前后的日记。
你问我关于写作的事——我是如何写作的。写作并没有什么诀窍，如果你喜欢写作并想要写作，那么你写就是了，不要管你在哪里，你在干其他的什么事，也不要管是否有人注意到你。我在作品发表之前，已经写了50万字（很大一部分是日记），其中只在圣尼古拉斯那里发表了几篇短小的文章。如果你想写关于情感、夏末、成长等方面的内容，那么就开始写吧！大多数作品并没有一个“蓝图”，我的大部分散文就没有写作结构。它们就像森林中的藤蔓那样，是我思维深处意识的流动。你可能会问“谁会关心这些呢”？每个人都会关心的。你也可能会说“这些已经被人写过了”，那么所有的内容以前都被人写过了。
我上过大学，但并非一离开高中就进大学，这中间相隔了6到8个月。有时，从学业中解放出来，给自己一个短小的假期，这会有意料不到的效果。我有个孙子，中断了一年学业，在科罗拉多州的阿斯本找了一份工作。他在那里，边滑雪边工作地过了一年。他现在是科尔比学院一年级的新生。但是，我不能、也不会建议你作同样的决定。如果你在学校里有辅导员的话，你最好寻求他的建议。我在上大学（康奈尔大学）时对日报产生兴趣，后来成为日报的编辑。它促使我进行大量的写作，并积累了良好的新闻工作经验。你那样说是正确的，一个人生命中真正的职责是保持他的梦想。但不要因此而忧虑，也不要被它们吓倒。写《瓦尔登湖》的亨利?梭罗说：“我至少从自己的实践中知道：如果一个人满怀信心地朝着自己梦想的方向迈进，百折不挠地去实现他梦想中的生活，他将会取得平凡生活所意想不到的成功。” 一百多年后，这句话仍然被人们广为传诵。因此，请你充满信心地前进吧！当你写好作品后，把它（打印好的清样）寄给杂志社或者出版公司。并不是所有的杂志社都接受未经预约的投稿，但其中一些是接受的。《纽约客》就一直关注新涌现出的人才。投稿的时候附上一封写给编辑的短信，我四十多年前就是这样做的。祝你好运！
真诚的
E．B．怀特
1973年9月15日
EBWhite
To
September 15, 1973
Dear Miss R,
At seventeen, the future is apt to seem formidable, even depressing. You should see the pages of my journal circa 1916.
You asked me about writing—how I did it. There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed. I must have written half a million words (mostly in my journal) before I had anything published, save for a couple of short items in St. NichoComs. If you want to write about feelings, about the end of summer, about growing, write about it. A great deal of writing is not “plotted”—most of my essays have no plot structure, they are a ramble in the woods, or a ramble in the basement of my mind. You ask，“Who cares?” Everybody cares. You say,“It's been written before.” Everything has been written before.
I went to college but not direct from high school; there was an interval of six or eight months. Sometimes it works out well to take a short vacation from the academic world— I have a grandson who took a year off and got a job in Aspen, Colorado. After a year of skiing and working, he is now settled into Colby College as a freshman. But I can't advise you, or won't advise you, on any such decision. If you have a counsellor at school, I'd seek the counsellor's advise. In college (Cornell), I got on the daily newspaper and ended up as editor of it. It enabled me to do a lot of writing and gave me a good journalistic experience. You are right that a person's real duty in life is to save his dream, but don't worry about it and don't let them scare you. Henry Thoreau, who wrote “Walden”, said, “I learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” The sentence, after more than a hundred years, is still alive. So, advance confidently. And when you write something, send it (nearly typed) to a magazine or a publishing house. Not all magazines read unsolicited contributions, but some do. The New Yorker is always looking for new talent. Write a short piece for them, send it to The Editor. That's what I did forty?some years ago. Good luck.
Sincerely,
E. B. WhiteTxt小＿说天/堂
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
E．B．怀特致R小姐
E．B．怀特（1899－1985），生于纽约蒙特弗农，毕业于康奈尔大学。他曾多年担任《纽约人》杂志的专职撰稿人。怀特是一位颇有造诣的散文家、幽默作家、诗人和讽刺作家。几代美国儿童之所以熟悉他，是因为他的第一流的儿童读物 《小斯图亚特》（1945） 和 《夏洛特的网》（1952）；一代又一代学生和作者熟悉他，因为他是 《风格的要素》的合著者 (兼修订者)之一。《风格的要素》是一本关于作文和惯用法的很有价值的小册子，最初由在康奈尔大学教过怀特英语的小威廉?斯特朗克教授撰写。本篇是他给一位文学爱好者的回信。
亲爱的R小姐：
17岁的年轻人常常觉得未来非常可怕，甚至是令人沮丧的。你应该读一读我1916年前后的日记。
你问我关于写作的事——我是如何写作的。写作并没有什么诀窍，如果你喜欢写作并想要写作，那么你写就是了，不要管你在哪里，你在干其他的什么事，也不要管是否有人注意到你。我在作品发表之前，已经写了50万字（很大一部分是日记），其中只在圣尼古拉斯那里发表了几篇短小的文章。如果你想写关于情感、夏末、成长等方面的内容，那么就开始写吧！大多数作品并没有一个“蓝图”，我的大部分散文就没有写作结构。它们就像森林中的藤蔓那样，是我思维深处意识的流动。你可能会问“谁会关心这些呢”？每个人都会关心的。你也可能会说“这些已经被人写过了”，那么所有的内容以前都被人写过了。
我上过大学，但并非一离开高中就进大学，这中间相隔了6到8个月。有时，从学业中解放出来，给自己一个短小的假期，这会有意料不到的效果。我有个孙子，中断了一年学业，在科罗拉多州的阿斯本找了一份工作。他在那里，边滑雪边工作地过了一年。他现在是科尔比学院一年级的新生。但是，我不能、也不会建议你作同样的决定。如果你在学校里有辅导员的话，你最好寻求他的建议。我在上大学（康奈尔大学）时对日报产生兴趣，后来成为日报的编辑。它促使我进行大量的写作，并积累了良好的新闻工作经验。你那样说是正确的，一个人生命中真正的职责是保持他的梦想。但不要因此而忧虑，也不要被它们吓倒。写《瓦尔登湖》的亨利?梭罗说：“我至少从自己的实践中知道：如果一个人满怀信心地朝着自己梦想的方向迈进，百折不挠地去实现他梦想中的生活，他将会取得平凡生活所意想不到的成功。” 一百多年后，这句话仍然被人们广为传诵。因此，请你充满信心地前进吧！当你写好作品后，把它（打印好的清样）寄给杂志社或者出版公司。并不是所有的杂志社都接受未经预约的投稿，但其中一些是接受的。《纽约客》就一直关注新涌现出的人才。投稿的时候附上一封写给编辑的短信，我四十多年前就是这样做的。祝你好运！
真诚的
E．B．怀特
1973年9月15日
EBWhite
To
September 15, 1973
Dear Miss R,
At seventeen, the future is apt to seem formidable, even depressing. You should see the pages of my journal circa 1916.
You asked me about writing—how I did it. There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed. I must have written half a million words (mostly in my journal) before I had anything published, save for a couple of short items in St. NichoComs. If you want to write about feelings, about the end of summer, about growing, write about it. A great deal of writing is not “plotted”—most of my essays have no plot structure, they are a ramble in the woods, or a ramble in the basement of my mind. You ask，“Who cares?” Everybody cares. You say,“It's been written before.” Everything has been written before.
I went to college but not direct from high school; there was an interval of six or eight months. Sometimes it works out well to take a short vacation from the academic world— I have a grandson who took a year off and got a job in Aspen, Colorado. After a year of skiing and working, he is now settled into Colby College as a freshman. But I can't advise you, or won't advise you, on any such decision. If you have a counsellor at school, I'd seek the counsellor's advise. In college (Cornell), I got on the daily newspaper and ended up as editor of it. It enabled me to do a lot of writing and gave me a good journalistic experience. You are right that a person's real duty in life is to save his dream, but don't worry about it and don't let them scare you. Henry Thoreau, who wrote “Walden”, said, “I learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” The sentence, after more than a hundred years, is still alive. So, advance confidently. And when you write something, send it (nearly typed) to a magazine or a publishing house. Not all magazines read unsolicited contributions, but some do. The New Yorker is always looking for new talent. Write a short piece for them, send it to The Editor. That's what I did forty?some years ago. Good luck.
Sincerely,
E. B. WhiteTxt小＿说天/堂