The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

  • -- Michael Moorcock 迈克尔·摩考克

图书业发明文学奖项是为了刺激销售,而不是奖励有价值的人。

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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

对任何艺术家来说,真正的风险在于将作品推向可能的极限,试图增加思考可能的总和。当书走到这条边缘时,就会变得很好;当书因为艺术家在艺术上的大胆而危及到他时,就会有掉下去的危险。

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

在我真正开始写一本书之前,我真的不知道我要写一本什么样的书!