Perhaps the first thing she would find, setting pen to paper, was that there was no common sentence ready for her use.

也许她在落笔时会发现的第一件事就是没有可供她使用的常用句子。

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.

我的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。