A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中，我的每一本书都逃过一劫，讲述了它的故事。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
也许书中有一种神秘的归巢本能，能把它们带给完美的读者。如果这是真的，那该多好啊。
A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation.
很多人认为慢慢阅读可以让你更好地思考，但并不是每个读者都是这样。我更喜欢泛滥。
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
一本书是读者和读者之间的合作，最好的情况是，这是一个像其他任何故事一样的爱情故事。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文学是一种艺术，它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西，用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,and the most patient of teachers.
书籍是最宁静、最恒久的朋友;它们是最易接近、最具智慧的顾问，也是最有耐心的老师。
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
我们通过眼睛互相了解对方，从解剖学上讲，眼睛是我们大脑的延伸。当我们与某人目光相遇时，我们会看到对方的内心。
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
每一位读者都发现了一种魔力，可以使他们牢牢地占有一页，而这一页通过魔法变得仿佛从未读过一样，清新而完美。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
在书中，我不仅游历了其他的世界，而且进入了我自己的世界。
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。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
我希望在我的书中，我能帮助孩子们看到他们的优点，并向他们展示我对他们偶尔可能经历的事情有一些了解。尤其是在棘手的时刻，回到过去逃避事情比向前面对事情更容易。
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
这样度过一个晚上是多么愉快啊!我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!要是我有了自己的房子，要是没有一间漂亮的书房，那才叫可怜呢。
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书不思考，犹如吃饭不消化。