If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

  • -- Theodora Goss 狄奥多拉·高斯

如果你是一个作家,你的首要责任,你对自己和读者的责任,对你写作本身的责任,就是变得精彩。成为最好的作家。

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西,除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵,你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视,我就去另一个房间看书。

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

其实有两件事能让你变得聪明——你读的书和你遇到的人。

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

我给我的孩子读书,但我不能忍受读书。