It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

  • -- J. M. Barrie J·M·巴里

能写书固然好,但你能动动耳朵吗?

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

书并不是绝对没有生命的东西,但书中确实包含着生命的力量,使之像它的后代那样活跃;不,它们确实像小瓶一样,保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

也许还有另一本水门事件的书。我曾想过写一本关于水门事件余波及其影响的书,或许由我或其他人来完成。

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

我喜欢读书。但我喜欢阅读的时间比我开始喜欢写作的时间长得多。

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

写作就像爵士乐。它可以被学习,但不能被教授。