The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  • -- Ursula K. Le Guin 娥苏拉·勒瑰恩

未读的故事不是故事;木浆上有小黑点。读者,读它,使它活:一个活的东西,一个故事。

相关名言

I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

我可以告诉你,作为一名作家和一名读者,我认为性格是最重要的。或者女王。不管情节多么扣人心弦,情节多么曲折有趣,如果我觉得我遇到的不是一个真实的人,我就不会强迫自己去读下去。

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

我从不从头条新闻中汲取灵感。我觉得如果一个故事足够好,一个真实的故事,那么它就已经被媒体报道过了,如果它不够好,我为什么还要为它费心呢?

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

在图书馆里,我感觉好多了,你可以信任的词,你可以看着它们直到你理解它们,它们不会像人一样在句子中间改变,所以更容易识破谎言。

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

读书对棒球运动员不好。对他的眼睛不好。即使我的眼睛有一点点不好,我也不能打出本垒打。所以我放弃了阅读。

"It is not for my own sake," said the fox, "that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood."

狐狸说:“我说树林里有一棵很好的鹅绿色的树,这不是为我自己的缘故。”

"Peter, I am taking a ride," said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.

“彼得,我要去骑马。”当狐狸和母鹅一起跑进树林时,母鹅说。

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

还有一个关于不幸爱情的故事。这是普遍的。

Will the reader turn the page?

读者会翻过这一页吗?