I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

  • -- Richard Curtis 理查德·柯蒂斯

我倾向于拒绝最初以电子书形式出版的书籍。至于直接把书卖给电子书出版商,我只会在所有传统出版商都拒绝的情况下这么做。

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It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

问题不在于你把音量开得多大。这听起来并不大。让它听起来很大的是在不同的延迟和混响设置上瞎混。

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

我回到自己的房间,收拾好换洗的衣服,拿起我的班卓琴,开始沿着路走。不久,我发现自己上了向东的高速公路。

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known: books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

于是,我重新发现了作家们一直知道的一个道理:书中总是提到其他的书,而每个故事都讲述着一个已经被讲述过的故事。

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

在我们的内心深处,除了我们自己创造出来的东西,什么都没有。

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

我不会拒绝奥斯卡,但我不会为奥斯卡制定战略。

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

匆忙有什么好处呢?你想让这些书经久不衰。