Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

因此,让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。

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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

书能真正改变我们的生活:读过书的人的生活,写过书的人的生活。读者和作家都发现了他们从未了解过的世界和自己。

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

接受批评。如果你不把你的工作交给别人批评,也不接受别人的批评,也就是说,你要认真地思考和关注它,那么你永远都不会进步。

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

我经常为那些不读好书的人感到遗憾;他们正在失去一个过上额外生活的机会。

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

我们觉得,尽管亨利的戏剧不完整,但其中蕴含着巨大的政治能量。

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

我仍然记得父亲第一次带我去遗忘书籍的墓地的那一天。

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

一项发明必须在它完成的世界里有意义,而不是在它开始的世界里。

Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are.

故事在等着你,我的小主人,当你回过头来看的时候,你会发现它们就在那里。

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

我正在写一本书。我把页码写好了。

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

我偶尔会发现一个我喜欢的庸俗的系列。

Decisions are made by those who show up.

决定是由那些到场的人做出的。