A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
读者
Reader
I'm a lousy reader.
我的阅读能力很差。
Will the reader turn the page?
读者会翻过这一页吗?
It takes a great reader to make a great book.
伟大的读者才能写出伟大的书。
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
在我成为作家之前，我是个十足的读者。
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
我是一个如饥似渴的作家，正如我是一个读者一样。
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
什么读者希望被告知罢工的态度?
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
我有一种近乎病态的恐惧，害怕让读者感到无聊。
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
问题是，读者不想听到糟糕的时代。
I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
我不怎么看杂志，看书也很讨厌。
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
写备忘录不是为了通知读者，而是为了保护作者。
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
理想的情况是，一本书没有顺序，读者必须找到自己的顺序。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.
事实上，一切最终都归结于读者、作者和角色之间的关系。一个角色是否以一种普遍而重要的方式处理道德存在?如果是，那就是文学。
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
我可以告诉你，作为一名作家和一名读者，我认为性格是最重要的。或者女王。不管情节多么扣人心弦，情节多么曲折有趣，如果我觉得我遇到的不是一个真实的人，我就不会强迫自己去读下去。
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限，但又不愿屈尊于读者，让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
我认为如果一本书有能力感动读者，它也有能力冒犯读者。你希望你的书有力量，所以你必须接受随之而来的。
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
对现代读者来说，任何基于古代文本的东西都很难理解。