Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

书籍是文学的金钱,但只是科学的计数器。

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I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

我想象一个孩子。那个孩子就是我。我能重建并生动地回忆起我童年的某些部分。我能看见、尝到、闻到、感觉到并听到它们。然后我要做的,不是写那个孩子或他的世界,而是开始想一本他会喜欢的书。

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说,小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于,在小说中,作者可以真实地说出真相,而不会让自己蒙羞。

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

当时我正在打橄榄球和其他英式学校的孩子们做的比赛,有一个比赛项目是赛跑,我以相当大的优势赢得了这些比赛。

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

你想要美好的生活?你住在白人住的地方,你在白人上学的地方上学,你在白人购物的地方购物。

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

我喜欢时尚,因为它包含了一天的心情,当下的时刻-像音乐,文学和艺术。

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

这本书出版后,我又惊又喜。就像,嘿,主队得分不错。