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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
当我走近书本，独自一人消磨时间时，我不得不去想一些如果我正忙于和一个哥哥和一个姐姐嬉闹，我永远也不会去想的事情。
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
任何东西都可以成为儿童读物，如果你把它给一个孩子……孩子们实际上是文学的最佳(和最差)读者，因为他们对伪装没有耐心。
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
在我所有的书中，我的很多角色都有自我毁灭的冲动。他们会准确地做他们知道是错的事情，在做错的事情中获得反常的快乐。
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
让孩子们读他们想读的任何东西，然后和他们谈论。如果父母和孩子能在一起交谈，我们就不会有那么多的审查，因为我们不会有那么多的恐惧。
No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
没有人能说出你嘴里的话。把自己浸在无言的话语中。张开双臂去生活。今天是你的书开始的地方。其余的还没有写出来。
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
因为书不仅仅是书，它们是生命，是过去时代的核心和核心，是人类生存、工作和死亡的原因，是他们生命的本质和精髓。
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。
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.
在我职业生涯的开始，我很难出版我的书，因为编辑们担心如果他们的名字和我联系在一起，人们会怎么看他们。
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
我知道这将是一个巨大的数字，因为有很多人买了这些书，但说实话，我从来没有想过它会比邦德更大。一百年也不会。
If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.
如果你是一个作家，你的首要责任，你对自己和读者的责任，对你写作本身的责任，就是变得精彩。成为最好的作家。
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
我的观点是，每本书都有自己的结构和长度。我已经写了三四本薄薄的书。也许下一部小说会很成功，但我不知道。
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.
它比其他的书更奇怪，更令人惊讶。我认为有更多的地方，它只是更多的现实弯曲，故意这样。我认为这在情感上更原始。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
没有书的房间就像没有意义的生活。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
不再有用的旧书和不再给人带来快乐的老朋友，都不应该被抛弃。
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
没有比读书更忠实的朋友了。
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
当我得到一点钱，我买书;如果还有剩余，我就买食物和衣服。
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
对美的感知是一种道德测试。