When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

  • -- Hilaire Belloc 贝洛克

我死的时候,愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的,他的书是被人诵读的。’

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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

我不会打桥牌。我不打网球。人们学到的所有东西,我都很钦佩,但似乎没有时间去做。但有时间做的是往窗外看。

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

我就像大多数作家一样,当某些事情发生时,会让人无法抗拒,让人着迷,让人感动,诸如此类。除了写下来,我不知道还能做些什么。

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

每一位伟大而有创见的作家,他的伟大而有创见之处与他的创见成正比,他自己也必须创造出他所要享受的趣味。

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

有时候,我们脑子里的东西比书里或电影里的任何东西都要糟糕得多!!

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

一个好的编辑会理解你在说什么,写什么,不会干涉太多。

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

如果你知道去哪里找,图书馆可以给你展示所有的东西。