When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

  • -- Gabrielle Zevin 加·泽文

当我二十多岁身无分文的时候,我会先买书再买食物。一顿饭可以支撑你几个小时,一本好书可以支撑你一生。

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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

作家很少选择那些自成一体的人物作为朋友,他们从不惹麻烦,从不不开心或生病,从不犯错误,总是在别人给他们找钱的时候数数。

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

众所周知,在我的书中,我试图把喜剧和严肃尽可能紧密地、不舒服地联系在一起。

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

有些书太熟悉了,读起来就像回到了家。

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

我现在和将来的一切都归功于书籍。