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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  • -- Salman Rushdie 鲁西迪

书籍选择作者;创造的行为并不完全是理性的和有意识的。

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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说，他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上，而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况，而不是刚开始的时候。

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Somebody would say, `Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, `Yes, of course,' because I was a hungry young journalist.

有人会说，‘你能给我们写一篇关于浪漫小说的文章吗?我回答说，“是的，当然。”因为我是一名饥肠辘辘的年轻记者。

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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

我们从不停止阅读，虽然每一本书都有结尾，正如我们从不停止生活，虽然死亡是肯定的。

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Life has so many different chapters. One bad chapter does not mean it's the end of the book.

人生有很多不同的篇章。一个糟糕的章节并不意味着它就是这本书的结尾。

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