A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
这周我读了很多书，但做的很少。事情应该是这样的。那肯定是成功之路。
People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they pay for it.
人们总是看到我写作，问我他们是否能读懂我的作品。答案是肯定的，在我发表之后，他们会付钱。
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
事实上，学习写作可能是学习阅读的一部分。据我所知，写作源于对阅读的高度投入。
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
伟大文学的美妙之处在于，它将读者转变为作家。
Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions
男人喜欢有勇气的女人，因为这意味着他们可以和他一起去追求他的美好梦想和意图
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
正确地说，我们应该为权力而读书。人的阅读应该是人的强烈的生命力。这本书应该是一个人手中的光球。
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
读书时，一场寂寞而宁静的音乐会给了我们的心灵;我们所有的心智能力都将呈现在这种交响乐的提升中。
Books are vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
书对学习很重要。一半的人不去看足球比赛，但这并不意味着足球就不那么重要了。
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
不要像孩子那样，为了自娱自乐而读书，也不要像有抱负的人那样，为了受教育而读书。不，为了生活而读书。
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
阅读。阅读。阅读。只是不要读一种类型的书。阅读不同作者的不同书籍，从而形成不同的风格。
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
阅读是唯一的方式，通过阅读，我们不由自主地，往往是无助地，进入他人的皮肤，他人的声音，他人的灵魂。
The beauty of Good reads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
好的阅读之美在于，你知道你正在播种的土地上，根据定义和自我选择，每个人都喜欢阅读。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
当我们阅读一个故事时，我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的，因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
书是飞机、火车和道路。它们是目的地，也是旅程。他们都回家了。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
我第一次读到一本优秀的作品，对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时，它就像一本旧书的相遇。
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时，我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外，没有取得任何更大的成就。
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
有权势的人没有时间读书;不读书的人，不配得权柄。