He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

  • -- Arthur Balfour 亚瑟·贝尔福

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

很多人喜欢即兴创作,但又害怕它,所以我试着写一本不是厨师写的关于即兴创作的书,而是一本真正的家庭烹饪书,里面有真正的家庭厨房,超市的食材,诸如此类的东西。

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

这让人感到悲哀,因为当艺术家们在一种乐器上得到完善和训练时,这对人们来说就像一个惊喜——几乎是一种反常。这是人们最不愿意考虑的事情。

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.

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。

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

如果我在阅读的时候没有得到鼓点因子,那我就做不到。

Why don't you write books people can read?

你为什么不写一些人们能读的书呢?