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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
也许正是这种语言选择了它所需要的作家，利用他们，使每一个人都能表达它的一小部分。
— Jose Saramago 萨拉马戈
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
Vladimir Nabokov
弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。
Cory Doctorow
科利·多克托罗
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘，要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的事情。
Benjamin Franklin
本杰明·富兰克林
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
Eudora Welty
韦尔蒂
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后，他决定为子孙后代写作。
George Ade
乔治·艾迪
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。
Jane Austen
简·奥斯汀