A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
阅读能让我保持一种实质性的感觉——我的道德操守，我的智力操守。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视，我就去另一个房间看书。
The most talented writer in the world is life itself and my books are alternative scenarios of what I read in it.
世界上最有才华的作家是生活本身，我的书是我在生活中所读到的另一种情景。
Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.
阅读带你踏上一段奇妙的旅程，你可能从未去过的地方。坐下来享受你的旅程。
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
他只学了一半的阅读艺术，而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
(小说和诗歌)是药物，它们是剂量，它们治愈了现实对想象的破坏。
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
我的母校是书，一个很好的图书馆……我可以用我的余生来阅读，满足我的好奇心。
I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.
我反对电子书。他们使真正的书籍过时，剥夺穷人和经济上受到挑战的自由。
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
一个好的(短篇小说)会把我从自己身上抽离出来，然后再把我塞回去。
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
他明白，有时候你会一头扎进书里，仿佛每一页都是另一个世界的一个洞。
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
我想我应该从莎士比亚的一首诗开始，但是我又想，我为什么要这样做呢?他从来不读我的书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
阅读所有的好书就像与过去几个世纪最杰出的人交谈。
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
的经典。这是一本人们赞美却不读的书。
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
没有作家的眼泪，就没有读者的眼泪。作家不感到惊讶，读者也不感到惊讶。
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。