A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
读者
Reader
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。
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
读者和作家之间没有任何区别——阅读是其中的一部分。
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
读者成为上帝，为了所有的文本目的。我看见你的眼睛变得呆滞，所以我要安静下来。
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
读了这些墓志铭，我们唯一的救赎就是复活死者，埋葬生者。
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
我最大的恐惧是让读者失望，所以每本书都必须比前一本书好。
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
这也是口述传记的乐趣之一，因为读者，而不是编辑，是陪审团。
The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
读者和主角都不会从外面看这部作品。他也在迷宫里。
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
我写的东西是写给那些愿意接受读者和作者之间的新关系的人的。
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.
只有当你打开你的血管，在书页上稍稍流血，你才能与读者建立联系。
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。
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
作者和读者之间的部分交易是建立一个社区并鼓励人们合作的乐趣。
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
未读的故事不是故事;木浆上有小黑点。读者，读它，使它活:一个活的东西，一个故事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
有好几次，因为给朋友发了一份邮件，我又重读了一遍，或者至少是草草翻阅了一遍，而通常发生的情况是，我注意到一堆又一堆笨拙的短语，真希望我能重写一遍。
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have a high IQ number. My parents gave me the test.' That's the way I was, I guess. I am still a kid. I love doing kid activities. I'm such a kid, but when I'm on set, I do like to be professional.
就我的年龄而言，我一直都很成熟。我是一个超龄读者。我不想表现得好像‘我的智商很高’。我的父母给了我测试。“我想我过去就是这样的。我还是个孩子。我喜欢做儿童活动。我就是这样一个孩子，但是当我在片场的时候，我喜欢表现得很专业。
I'm a lousy reader.
我的阅读能力很差。