A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
文学是我们了解世界，并将价值观代代相传的安全而传统的载体。书拯救生命。
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
书是很棒的礼物，因为书里面有整个世界。而且给别人买一本书要比给他们买全世界的书便宜得多!
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
对于孤独的人来说，书商是最有价值的去处，因为作家们找不到倾诉的对象，所以写了那么多书。
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
在我们之间，没有什么东西，抽象地说，作为一个“好”的书。一本书只有在满足了人类的一些欲望或驳斥了人类的一些错误时才是“好”的。
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
严肃作家的现实是许多声音的现实，有些属于作家，有些属于广大读者的世界。
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
哦，也许城市里唯一剩下的美就在路上的油迹里，也许住在这些地方的人身上已经没有一点美了。
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads favorite authors, particular themes as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
我告诉自己，一个人读什么并不重要，重要的是我们读了什么。拥有这些书并不重要。
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
有时候，我觉得儿童读物里的问题越来越严峻，但我不知道自己是否想让三四年级的学生背上沉重的负担。
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
在一个好的书屋里，你会以某种神秘的方式感到，你在通过皮肤吸收所有书中所包含的智慧，甚至不用打开它们。
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
阅读不仅仅是一种智力上的追求，更是一种情感和精神上的追求。它点燃了自我飓风之灯中的蜡烛;这就是它存活下来的原因。
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
我想这其中也包含了刻意改变的因素。至少在我看来，我的每一本书都与上一本书截然不同。
There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
它们根本没有什么魔力。神奇之处只在于书中所言，在于他们如何将宇宙的碎片缝合成一件衣服。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
我喜欢在我的书中探索邪恶的人物。
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。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
养成读书的习惯，就是为自己建造一个避难所，使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
没有书的房间就像没有灵魂的躯体。
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
书籍真正的目的，是引导头脑开始独立思考。