The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

  • -- Elizabeth Drew 伊丽莎白·德鲁

我想,文学的考验在于,我们自己是否因为阅读而活得更有激情。

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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

当我要开始写一本书的时候,我会考虑两件事。首先,故事本身必须有一个戏剧性的弧线,让我和读者从头到尾都能读懂。其次,故事必须贯穿更大的主题,才能照亮主题的世界。

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

我认为戏剧和书籍一样,是地方病。它们生长在作者的土壤和他所写的地方。我想,你就是不能移动它们。

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

我有六个诚实的仆人。(我所知道的都是他们教给我的);他们的名字是“什么”、“为什么”、“什么时候”、“怎样”、“在哪里”和“谁”。

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

那些以焚烧书籍开始的人将以焚烧人告终。