A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literary
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
我可以再一次提醒你们，在这个时代，一个女人做着重要的文学思考。
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
他们说，文学力量的考验是一个人能否题词。我说，‘他能给小猫起个名字吗?’
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
对于一个更快、更实时、更自然的文学社区，可能会有一种不同的模式。
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
我认为我的情感很文学;我所有的书都是作为书来写的，我没有把它们当成电影。
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
文学批评家是一个不会写作的人，但是他喜欢表现出如果他能的话，他会是一个很棒的作家!
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
这对我们这些“文学”爱好者来说太糟糕了，但这是事实——图片比文字更能有效地讲述故事。
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
几个世纪以来，在文坛上被认为是歌曲的，是任何看起来像普通旋律背景的歌词的文字。
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
当写文学小说的作家开始写剧本时，每个人都认为这就是结局。这是另一个再也写不好的人。
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
有些文学类型认同这样一种观点，即像塞林格这样的作家有权让一个人不受那些可能适用于凡人的标准的约束。
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
我知道我遇到了这样一个人，他的个性是如此迷人，如果我允许他这样做，他会吸收我的整个天性，我的整个灵魂，甚至我的艺术本身。
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.
很多文学科幻小说都是关于创造丰富、详细、在社会层面上有意义的世界。我们将为人们创造一个世界，然后在这个世界里呈现一个故事。
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.
现在让我们来庆祝这个文学典故。现在让我们来庆祝这一比喻和故意的干扰。现在让我们来庆祝所有这些的谐音和头韵。现在让我们来庆祝我们自己的声音。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
每一位文学评论家都相信他将战胜历史，并拥有最后的发言权。
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
你不必死后才写一部经典，你也不必为了聪明而去写文学作品。
Literary critics make natural detectives.
文学批评家是天生的侦探。
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
如果一个文人把两个关于音乐的词放在一起，其中一个就错了。
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
我在文学上就像一个巨无霸和薯条。