A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
我发现我的写作中最有价值的部分是当人们给我写信或在公共场合对我说话，告诉我他或她的生活是如何被我的书改变的。
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
关心文字，与文字有利害关系，相信书籍的力量——这压倒了其他一切，与之相比，一个人的生命变得非常渺小。
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
一本好书，如果有一个图书管理员的灵魂，就会成为推动世界进步的动力之一。
The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions…
大脑的精神直接与睾丸相连。这就是为什么那些厌倦了书本想象的人不太适合生育的原因。
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
书不是写出来的，而是重写出来的。包括你自己的。这是最难接受的事情之一，尤其是在第七次重写还没有完成的时候。
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
我爱书。我喜欢你打开一本书，沉浸其中的那一刻，你就可以逃离这个世界，沉浸到一个比你的故事更有趣的故事中去。
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
他开始以一种我能认出来的方式看着我:那是我看一本新书的方式，一本我以前从未读过的书，一本让我惊讶不已的书。
Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.
接受批评。如果你不把你的工作交给别人批评，也不接受别人的批评，也就是说，你要认真地思考和关注它，那么你永远都不会进步。
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
傻瓜有一种习惯，认为著名作家写的一切都令人钦佩。就我而言，我读书只是为了取悦自己，只喜欢适合我口味的书。
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
我仍然觉得每一天都太短了，我无法去想所有的事情，我无法去散步，我无法读所有的书，我无法去见所有的朋友。
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
很明显，我没有要求成为一名历史学家。因此，在我的书中，亲密和个人与广阔的历史密不可分。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!
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。
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
书籍是心灵的镜子。
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
凡是有钱的单身汉，总想娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。
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。