A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
读者
Reader
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
愿意为了感动读者而死。即使是现在，我也担心这句话印出来会有多傻。
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
读一本小说，书中所有的人物都表现出耐心、勤奋、贞洁和延迟的满足感，这可能是一种相当枯燥的经历。
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。
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.
我希望我所有的书都能激起读者的某种反应，让他们思考一些东西或感受一些东西，或两者兼而有之，让它们成为他们的一部分，融入他们自己的生活。
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。
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
早期，一个故事的意义和基本原理似乎很明显，但是当我写它的时候，我意识到我太了解这个意义/基本原理了，这意味着读者也会知道它——所以事情必须加快速度。
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
读过这些回忆录的人会发现，在我的眼前，我从来没有一个固定的目标，我的系统，如果可以称为一个系统的话，就是随波逐流，随波逐流。
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。
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
作为一个牧师和一个父亲，我想让我的儿子知道我说的是实话。他能读这本书。他知道我是否夸大其词。我儿子会永远相信我是一个诚实的人或者我在那本书里写的是一个骗子，因为他能读懂。
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。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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?