“ What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. 作者为一本书带来了什么并不重要,重要的是读者贡献了什么。 Lisa Morton 莉萨·莫顿
“ There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. 继续研究是一种可怕的诱惑。到了一定的时候,你必须停下来,开始写作。 David McCullough 戴维·麦卡洛
“ The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. 语言的主要优点是清晰,没有什么比使用不熟悉的单词更能削弱它。 Hippocrates 希波克拉底