A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  • -- Caroline Gordon 卡罗琳·戈登

一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。

相关名言

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

我把写小说比作一场旅行,带着一些我将要到达的目的地的概念,但不是整个画面——随着旅程的进行,它会逐渐显现为一系列的启示。

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

把整个下午都用来锻炼和娱乐,这和读书一样必要。我宁愿说更有必要,因为健康比学习更有价值。

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.

当你翻到最后一页的时候,你知道你读了一本好书,感觉就像失去了一个朋友。

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

一本书永远不是杰作:它变成了杰作。天才是死人的才能。

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

如果我们遇到一个智力超群的人,我们应该问他读什么书。

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

别说老太太尖叫了。让她来,让她尖叫。

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

演艺事业的一部分是魔术。你不知道这是怎么发生的。

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant.

血脉中没有足够的魔法来铸造一个瞬间。