I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  • -- David Foster Wallace 大卫·福斯特·华莱士

我会做一些事情,比如坐上出租车说:“去图书馆,然后踩上去。”

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I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.

我基本上在谷歌上为这本书做了所有的图书馆研究,它不仅为我节省了大量的时间,而且在更短的时间内为我提供了更丰富的研究内容。

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

把小说改编成电影剧本,就像为一幅早已完成并装裱好的画画上一系列素描。

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

一本好的小说告诉我们关于主人公的真相;但是一部糟糕的小说告诉我们关于作者的真相。

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

某个人书柜里的东西是他历史的一部分,就像祖先的画像一样。

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

斗牛犬就像拳击手。每隔一段时间它就需要尝一尝血的味道。

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

因为了解一个人的藏书室,在某种程度上就是了解他的思想。

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

读书最大的乐趣在于重读。

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

读书之于心灵,犹如运动之于身体。