“ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. 经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。 Italo Calvino 伊塔罗·卡尔维诺
“ A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. 一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。 Charles Peguy 查尔斯·佩吉
“ Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. 想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治