A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  • -- Madeleine L'Engle 马德莱娜·朗格朗

一本书来了,说:“给我写信。”我的工作就是尽我所能地为它服务,这永远不够好,但我所能做的就是倾听它,做它告诉我的,并与它合作。

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The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

在我看来,我们面临的最大挑战是继续前进的能力,使该机构只有一项使命:即提供体面、安全和负担得起的住房。

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

如果你的注意力越来越差,那就去钓鲈鱼吧。这会提高你集中注意力的能力。如果鱼上钩时你还没有准备好,你就不能上钩。

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

故事是作者写给自己的一封信,告诉自己一些他无法发现的事情。

Everyone hears what you say friends listen to what you say best friends listen to what you don't say.

每个人都听到你说什么,朋友听你说什么,最好的朋友听你不说什么。

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

要非常、非常耐心、非常开放,倾听别人的想法。

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

写作对神经来说是相当糟糕的。