A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
小说是生命剩余时间的食物，是介于时间和等待之间的时光。
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
如果一个人不能一次又一次地享受读书的乐趣，那么读书就毫无用处。
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
出版一本书就像怀孕一样。到最后，你就可以把孩子抱出来了!
And I, Sir, I’ll never have a mistress as beautiful as those in the pictures of obscene books!
而我，先生，我永远也不会有一个情妇像那些下流书上的情人那么漂亮!
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
我做过的人都做过，我的人生做出了合理的展示。我现在可以回去看书了吗?
People who know and love the same books you do have the road map of your soul. I believe that.
那些与你认识并热爱同样书籍的人，拥有你灵魂的路线图。我相信。
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
我知道有许多书使读者感到厌烦，但我不知道有哪一本真正做了坏事。
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
我喜欢哥特小说或者关于僵尸的书，如果它们写得好，我也喜欢吸血鬼。
A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.
一本好书会从一开始就吸引你，带你踏上永生难忘的旅程。
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
每个读者都知道，书中的人物似乎比真实的人更真实。
A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
他们说，一个女人的命运只有当她把自己的小书抱在怀里时才会实现。
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
我认为生活是一本好书。你越深入，它就越有意义。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
头脑需要书籍，就像剑需要磨石一样，如果它想保持锋利的话。
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.
一本书，一本真正的书，是作者的忏悔室。因为，不管他愿不愿意，他的性格直接或间接地背叛了他，使他不得不公开表达自己内心深处的感情。