Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

书是一种社会性的东西——一个作家对读者说话——所以我认为把读书作为一个社会活动的中心,一个读书俱乐部的聚会,是一个绝妙的主意。

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

在古欧洲和古克里特岛,妇女因其在发现农业和发明纺织和制陶艺术中的作用而受到尊重。

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

一个作曲家突然有了一个很棒的想法,然后通宵达旦地写出来,这种陈旧的想法是毫无意义的。晚上是睡觉的时间。

I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

我只是陷入了迪伦式的录音想法。他真的很快。

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

无论什么时候书被烧掉,人最终也会被烧掉。

It's never been about making money.

从来都不是为了赚钱。