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。
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
当你老了，头发花白，睡意朦胧，在炉火旁打盹时，请取下这本书，慢慢地读，梦见你曾经眼神柔和，阴影深沉。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
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。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
你写得很轻松，以显示你的教养，但写得容易，读起来难。
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
当读者进入一本诗集，他或她进入一个世界，在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识，在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。