I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

  • -- Frank McCourt 弗兰克·迈考特

我想在我写这本书之前,我已经确定了书名。

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长,可以保存几百年。因此,它不仅是一种消费工具,而且是一种相当可观的资本,而且就职业人士而言,它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

我不知道是谁说小说家读别人的小说只是为了弄清楚他们是怎么写的。我相信这是真的。我们对暴露在书页表面的秘密并不满意:我们把书翻了个底朝天,寻找缝合线。

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

我认为这与故事的讲述方式有很大关系,无论是通过讲述的音乐还是故事的“真实性”,都能让人感觉真实。

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

我只是认为我们文化中过去的某个版本将会崛起并占据主导地位。