I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

  • -- Robert Edmond Cormier 罗伯特·埃德蒙·科米尔

我的叔叔阿姨们不仅没有读过我的书,而且几乎不相信我是一个作家。

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

我们读书来发现我们是谁。其他人,真实的或想象的,做了什么,想了什么,感觉了什么……是我们理解自己是什么和可能成为什么样子的重要指南。

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

我们当中有谁没有感觉到,我们在纸上读到的人物,比站在我们身边的人更真实?

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

我认为,自由和文明的社会不会孤立地关押囚犯。

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

我相信我们都在否认我们所爱的人。

We read because we are essentially alone.

我们读书是因为我们本质上是孤独的。

You can never trust what you read.

你永远不能相信你读到的东西。