The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

  • -- Thomas Wolfe 托马斯·沃尔夫

作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书,而读者读一本书是为了记住它。

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

同样,如果一个人不不断地努力抹去自己的个性,他就写不出任何可读的东西。好的散文就像一扇窗户。

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

我想起了我的那堆旧平装书,书页摇摇晃晃,就像它们曾经属于大海一样。

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

如果我的医生告诉我只有六分钟的生命,我不会沉思。我会打字快一点。

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

图书馆里住着夜里从书页里出来的精灵。

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

我喜欢好的作家不是他说什么,而是他低声说什么。

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

有人看到成年男子在阅读了贴在外面的菜单后逃跑。