A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
事实上，更多的人通过看电视来获取信息，而不是读书。我发现新技术和新的沟通方式非常令人兴奋，我想在这个领域做更多的工作。
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
我死后，报纸上可能会有一两段。我的名字将会出现在大英博物馆阅览室的目录中，在一长串无人问询的书单的最前面。
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
那海滨别墅的男主角呢?当他在书的末尾放下电话时，这意味着什么?我真的不知道，但我认为他会终生瘫痪。你不?
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
我刚写完第一本书，就写了第二本书，希望今年能卖出去，而我也差不多完成了这个系列的第三本书。另外两项计划已经拟定。我要在这干很长时间。
I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
我最近为我的书做了大卫莱特曼秀。他很严肃，不开玩笑，这让我有点措手不及。他比记者们听到的一些笑话要严肃得多。
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
首先你想知道它们是不是独立的故事，但是不，它们不是，它们是偶然的故事，它们形成了一种模式。你从岛上的一些地方开始书中的女主人公回到了那里。
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 don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
我不认为哀叹世界现状有什么意义，除非你能想出什么办法来改善它。否则，就不要写书了;去找一个热带岛屿，躺在阳光下。
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
我总是做最坏的打算。我准备出版这本书，卖出七本，还要继续在广告业工作，所以这本书受到如此多的读者的欢迎，这真是太棒了。
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
读书是一种思维敏捷的工作，要求很高，在理想的条件下终于产生一种忘我的境界。这给了阅读体验一种无与伦比的崇高和力量，任何其他形式的沟通。
It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
它在漫画书中是有效的，但随着观众年龄的增长和阅历的加深，我认为故事需要随着他们一起成长。这是一个关于几个敌对帮派的故事，几天后发生了什么事。
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
书不过是废纸，除非我们把睡着时获得的智慧付诸行动。当我们对生者感到厌倦时，我们可以向死者寻求安慰，因为他们在谈话中没有丝毫的乖戾、骄傲和故意。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的，这些符号代表着其他符号，而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读，一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。
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。
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
我的下一本书——每一本书我都在写——在我的脑海中翩翩起舞，每一个情节都让我感到兴奋。如果没有，我为什么要写呢?
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
好朋友，好书和一个昏昏欲睡的良心:这是理想的生活。
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。