The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩,而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。

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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

我想在视觉上和智力上定义婚礼的词汇。这本书不仅仅是关于婚礼或婚纱。这是对女性生活和创造力的隐喻。

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

谁想被利用?我喜欢读书,所以书是我的主要朋友。他们总是有空的,总是友好的,总是有趣的,他们从不让我选择立场。

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the  walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

我仍然觉得每一天都太短了,我无法去想所有的事情,我无法去散步,我无法读所有的书,我无法去见所有的朋友。

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

有些事情本身必须是好的,否则就没有办法分辨善恶。

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

如果写作的欲望没有伴随着真正的写作,那么写作的欲望就一定是不写的。

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

我写的很直接。我坐在第一页开始写作。

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

我的教育被忽视了,但我却酷爱读书。

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

我正式提出。我是一个很好的南方绅士。

I read everything and anything. I love books.

我什么都看,什么都看。我爱书。

Reading is more important than writing.

阅读比写作更重要。