A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
一本让我无聊到流泪的书忽视了人物塑造和散文的质量。
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
一本书暗示了一个我在百万年里都想不到的世界和故事。
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
我只写过不受欢迎的书,却成了这样一个受欢迎的人,难道不奇怪吗?
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
你永远无法确定在一本与他人共度时光的书中,你会发现什么。
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
我先把书卖了。实际上是给平装本出版商的。我一无所有。我只是有个想法。
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
如果有一本书你想读,但还没有写出来,那么你必须写出来。
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
许多不那么多产的杀手故事之所以无人知晓,是因为它们根本不适合写好书。
Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.
凡书都是好书,人在何处保守好书,耶和华的殿也在何处。
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
我很反常。如果有人告诉我必须读书,我马上就不愿意去读了。
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
当你翻到最后一页的时候,你知道你读了一本好书,感觉就像失去了一个朋友。
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
我不断的修改。一旦这本书写好并打好字,我就把整个草稿再看一遍。
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
最好的书不只是提供信息,而是激发读者去了解自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
书籍让我们进入他们的灵魂,向我们敞开我们自己的秘密。
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下,它们会永远等你;关注他们,他们也会爱你。
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
要写一本真正有趣的书,一个人必须接受很多惩罚。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书,是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
生活是一件美好的事情,可以谈论,也可以在历史书中读到——但是当一个人不得不生活的时候,它是可怕的。
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
没有比读书更忠实的朋友了。