It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  • -- Salman Rushdie 鲁西迪

不被一本书冒犯是非常、非常容易的。你只要把它关上就行了。

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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

除非你读过书,否则书是不存在的。这是一个双向的过程——你边读边写,填补空白。你发现了它,把这些标记放在一起,如果你不这么做,它们就只是标记。

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

我花了两年时间写一本书,两天后我收到了第一封电子邮件:下一封什么时候出版?

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

最古老的书仍然只对那些没有读过的人开放。

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

经典是一本不必再写的书。