Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

  • -- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

有时当我想到我的书能有多好,我几乎不能呼吸。

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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。

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

祷告使人有机会认识一位素不相识的绅士。我说的不是造他的主,乃是他自己。

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

没有读过的书对任何人都没有好处。故事发生在读者的脑海中,而不是印在纸上的符号之间。

I love hearing my audience breathe.

我喜欢听我的观众呼吸。

Just let your skin breathe.

让你的皮肤呼吸。

I hardly went to school.

我几乎没去上学。