A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

一个完成的故事可以使一个人在光明和文学意义上永生;但一个未完成的故事暗示着另一种不朽,更本质,也更奇怪。

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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

在我们之间,没有什么东西,抽象地说,作为一个“好”的书。一本书只有在满足了人类的一些欲望或驳斥了人类的一些错误时才是“好”的。

My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.

我的工作是激励别人过充实的生活。无论是通过写作,还是通过行动,我都是一样的。

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

没有书的生活是饥渴的生活,没有诗的生活是……就像没有照片的生活。

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

我认识一些使用潜台词的作家,他们都是懦夫。