A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
If I had a clear vision, none of my books would be what they are. I've got to let the characters show me the way.
如果我有一个清晰的愿景，我的书就不会是现在的样子。我得让角色给我指路。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视，我就去另一个房间看书。
I prefer physical books to eBooks, because an eBook can’t be the solution to a wobbly chair like a real book can.
比起电子书，我更喜欢实体书，因为电子书不能像真正的书那样解决椅子摇晃的问题。
The most talented writer in the world is life itself and my books are alternative scenarios of what I read in it.
世界上最有才华的作家是生活本身，我的书是我在生活中所读到的另一种情景。
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
因此，一个人在一封信里迷失了方向，或者听到寂静的书页上响起了一个声音，这并不罕见。
Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better.
每当我有一个糟糕的一天，我就会找到一个角落，拿出我的书，然后一切开始感觉好起来。
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
“一定要小心书，”泰莎说，“还有书里面的东西，因为文字有力量改变我们。
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
没有文字，没有文字，没有书籍，就没有历史，就没有人性。
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
(小说和诗歌)是药物，它们是剂量，它们治愈了现实对想象的破坏。
A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.
一首你最喜欢的歌曲或曲调可能会在你脑海里萦绕几个小时。一本好书会一直留在你的脑海里，直到你找到另一本。
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
我的母校是书，一个很好的图书馆……我可以用我的余生来阅读，满足我的好奇心。
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
我的书房里正等着那些可敬的逝者，他们要给我娱乐，把我从活着的凡人的胡言乱语中解脱出来。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
一个普通人可以用两千本书把自己包围起来，这样，他在这个世界上就至少有了一个可以快乐的地方。
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
在一家旧书店里，你可以头朝后走，找到那些尘封已久的旧书，它们的封面完好无损，里面装的是真正的宝物。
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
你最后一次读书是什么时候?真相了。而且图画书不算数——我的意思是有印刷品的东西。