The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  • -- Ursula K. Le Guin 娥苏拉·勒瑰恩

未读的故事不是故事;木浆上有小黑点。读者,读它,使它活:一个活的东西,一个故事。

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I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.

我认为我们在南非有足够的实力,但这并不意味着他们不是一支好球队。他们威吓了很多球队,但我们威吓了他们。没有对南非的不尊重;他们是一个非常好的团队。

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

我拒绝了第一个剧本和第二个剧本。有一天,我躺在花园里的一把伞下,读着第三本,不知道为什么我拒绝了第一本。

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

当我教书的时候,我是一个更好的作家。我不断地复习基础知识,不断地提醒自己,就像我提醒我的学生一样,是什么造就了一个好故事,一首好诗。

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

我看到了很多循环,这是肯定的。这是整个后星球大战时代,但我不认为这是整个故事。

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

我可以读伟大的书,但我对伟大的书不感兴趣。

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

问题是,读者不想听到糟糕的时代。

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

我是一个如饥似渴的作家,正如我是一个读者一样。

Fields have eyes and woods have ears.

田野有眼,森林有耳。