A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
一本书的阅读方式——也就是说，一个读者给一本书带来的品质——和作者在书中所写的东西一样，与书的价值息息相关。任何会读书的人，都能学会深入阅读，从而活得更充实。
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
帮助你最多的书是那些让你思考最多的书。最难的学习方法是轻松阅读;但是，伟大的思想家所写的伟大著作是思想的航船，满载着真善美。
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
当我写一本书的时候，我每天大约写五千字，如果我在写短篇小说，我每天大约写三千字。我在项目之间会有很长一段时间的休息，当我读很多书，整理花园，思考下一本书或故事的时候。
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。
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
我的书根据书店的不同摆放在不同的地方。有时他们可以在神秘的部分找到，有时在幽默部门，有时甚至在文学通道，这是有点惊人的。
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
这本书为那些认为它令人畏惧或神秘的人指明了道路。有些人就是这么做的，但有些人需要帮助，需要心态上的帮助，需要允许他们倾听自己。理解事物如何运作是关键。
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
你知道，他会去看不同的有趣的书，因为他希望他的角色是不同的，做不同的脸。我在他的房间里看到一本有趣的书，看起来就像他正在扮演的那个角色。是关于一只鸭子的。
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
我更喜欢和孩子们一起工作，他们的生活可能被周末读一本书彻底颠覆。你给他们一本书读，他们回家后就变成了另一个人。这是非常有趣和令人兴奋的。
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
最后，我想说，我对伟大没有幻想;恰恰相反，我非常谦虚地认识到，在我四十年的生活中，我的生活是一本公开的书，服务于我的建筑师同行和公共利益。
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
我不知道是谁说小说家读别人的小说只是为了弄清楚他们是怎么写的。我相信这是真的。我们对暴露在书页表面的秘密并不满意:我们把书翻了个底朝天，寻找缝合线。
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
书并不是绝对没有生命的东西，但书中确实包含着生命的力量，使之像它的后代那样活跃;不，它们确实像小瓶一样，保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。
A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
很多人喜欢即兴创作，但又害怕它，所以我试着写一本不是厨师写的关于即兴创作的书，而是一本真正的家庭烹饪书，里面有真正的家庭厨房，超市的食材，诸如此类的东西。
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长，可以保存几百年。因此，它不仅是一种消费工具，而且是一种相当可观的资本，而且就职业人士而言，它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。
Never judge a book by its movie.
永远不要以貌取人。
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
树枝下的诗集，一壶酒，一条面包，还有你。
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
要读的书不是为你着想的书，而是让你思考的书。
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。