To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

  • -- Paul Auster 保罗·奥斯特

关心文字,与文字有利害关系,相信书籍的力量——这压倒了其他一切,与之相比,一个人的生命变得非常渺小。

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A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself at home. Do as you please, but please don’t put your feet up on my hippocampus.

书是心灵的假期。我的书会把你带进我的脑海,所以请不要拘束。随你的便,但请不要把你的脚放在我的海马上。

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

接受批评。如果你不把你的工作交给别人批评,也不接受别人的批评,也就是说,你要认真地思考和关注它,那么你永远都不会进步。

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

读书就相当于用别人的头脑思考,而不是用自己的头脑思考。