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.

  • -- Daniel Pinkwater 丹尼尔·平克沃特

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。

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长,可以保存几百年。因此,它不仅是一种消费工具,而且是一种相当可观的资本,而且就职业人士而言,它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

我当时正在写一本关于自尊的儿童读物,我真的觉得我想要摆脱我一直以来的羞耻感,也许这样对我这个年纪的女性来说会更容易一些,因为她们可能对自己感到很不好。

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

人们常说玩耍是严肃学习的一种解脱。但对孩子们来说,玩耍是严肃的学习。玩耍真的是童年的产物。

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

我出生在大草原上,那里自由地吹着风,没有什么能打破阳光。我出生在没有围栏的地方。