When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

  • -- Hilaire Belloc 贝洛克

我死的时候,愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的,他的书是被人诵读的。’

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I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

我正试着养成一种习惯,拿起一本书,学习如何写下我对事物的感受,不是我的感受,而是我的想法,希望我很快就能朝着写作和导演的方向迈进。

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

书籍和谚语一样,其主要价值来自它们所经过的时代的印记和尊重。

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

作家的默默无闻通常与他的无能成正比。

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

你不能等待灵感。你必须用棍棒去打它。

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

我的小说指出世界完全由例外组成。

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

我喜欢在别人的心目中迷失自己……书为我思考。