A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
我的简短回答是，我试着写我想读的那种书。如果我能把它写得清晰、有趣、引人入胜，那么我希望读者也能喜欢。
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
有些作家很难理解，为了忠实于书的精神，几乎永远不可能忠实于文本。你必须做出改变。
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
我唯一的文学抱负就是写一部好小说，然后隐退到沙漠里的茅屋里，摆出莲花的姿势，静下心来，静下心来，沉思默想我的小说
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
比赛的经验表明，我们获得最重要的教育不是通过书本，而是通过我们的工作。我们被日常的任务所发展，或者被日常的任务所挫败，就像没有其他事情一样。
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
这本书是关于物理的，它是关于物理的，它是关于物理和数学之间的关系，以及它们是如何紧密相连的，你能在多大程度上探索这种关系，并相信它。
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
我就像一本书，由于没有用处而粘在一起:我的思想需要打开包装，而储存在里面的真理必须不时翻看，以便在需要的时候随时准备好。
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书，只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
对一个人来说，最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书，而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书，能满足他头脑中自然的渴望，因此能唤起兴趣，吸引思想。
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
我当时正在写一本关于自尊的儿童读物，我真的觉得我想要摆脱我一直以来的羞耻感，也许这样对我这个年纪的女性来说会更容易一些，因为她们可能对自己感到很不好。
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
我是一本书的作者，也是导演，我是所有的演员，我是特效师和灯光技师:我就是这些。所以，是好是坏，完全由我决定。
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
我想要的是那些在书中占据相同领域的搞笑和令人心碎的东西，因为我认为它们在生活中经常占据相同的领域，就像我们试图把它们分开一样。
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
我不知道编辑们会怎么看，也不知道他们会怎么接受。但在某种程度上，我希望下一本书，当人们拿起来读的时候，能把他们吓得魂飞魄散。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.
我的梦想是成为一名作家，能够写出至少一本书供人们阅读。随着我的第一部小说的出版，这个梦想实现了——而其他的一切都是甜蜜的奖励。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
除了狗，书是人类最好的朋友。狗的肚子太黑了，没法看书。
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
是的，在我的书中，我确实对自己进行了编辑，以免成为乡村讲解员。
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.
只有当一本书是出于激情而写的时候，人们才有希望满怀激情地去阅读它。
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
我不在乎他们怎么处理我的书，只要支票兑现就行。