And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

他们写了无数的书;太骄傲、太分散、不能缄默。各人追求自己的高升、躲避自己的空虚。

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

有时候,成为朋友意味着掌握时机的艺术。有沉默的时候。是时候放手了,让人们投入自己的命运。是时候收拾残局了。

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

写作的矛盾在于,它既可以被看作是一种行为,也可以被看作是一种解释过程,一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此,它既肯定又否定自己的本性。

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

没有空的空间或空的时间。总有一些东西可以看,一些东西可以听。事实上,尽管我们尽力保持沉默,但我们做不到。

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

就好书而言,重点不是看你能读多少本,而是看你能读多少本。

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

如果我必须给年轻作家一些建议,我会说不要听作家谈论写作或他们自己。

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

当一本新书出版或以任何形式出现时,我就去读它。