A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
A great book is a homing device for navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care about the comfort of a chair.
一本好书是导航天堂的导航装置。一本好书在某种程度上让你关心椅子的舒适度。
To read is to empower, to empower is to write, to write is to influence, to influence is to change, to change is to live.
读书就是授权， 授权就是写作， 写作就是影响， 影响就是改变， 改变就是生活。
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
是作家激发了年轻人的想象力，播下了一颗开花结果的种子。
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
一本好书随时可以买到;它可能会被倒出并喝上一百遍，但它仍然在那里，以供进一步的吸收。
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
作为一个青少年，我写漫画书，因为我读了很多，还有以马来西亚和中非为背景的奇幻小说。
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
当你重读一本经典著作时，你在书中看到的并不比以前多;你比以前看到了更多。
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.
这本书是一部发生在读者心中的电影。这就是为什么我们去看电影时说，哦，书更好看。
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
我们是厚厚的一层，一页一页地躺在简单的封面后面。爱——不是书本身，而是书的装帧。
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
我们这些老了还因为读幼稚的书而受到责备的人，当孩子们读了对我们来说太老的书时却受到了责备。
Books they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed.
书在你手里热乎乎地捧回家，然后一点一点地温暖你的生活，就像新英格兰床上的热砖。
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
真正有文化的人有能力拥有成千上万本未读过的书，而不会失去冷静或对更多的渴望。
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
如果每个图书馆在某种意义上都是读者的反映，那么它也是我们现在不是、也不可能成为的东西的一种形象。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中，我的每一本书都逃过一劫，讲述了它的故事。
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
对美的感知是一种道德测试。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。