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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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

你知道当某件事让你感觉很好,但你却害怕感觉很好?所以你有点犹豫?每个人都说,恭喜你,你一定很高兴。你会说一些愚蠢的话,比如,我只是在尽我所能利用我仅有的一点。

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

没有我应该在哪里的蓝图。我觉得自己是个年轻的好演员,还有很多东西要学。在他们的职业生涯中,没有人是完成者。

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

多读书。从书中期待一些大的东西,一些提高或深化的东西。不值得重读的书就不值得读。

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

许多不那么多产的杀手故事之所以无人知晓,是因为它们根本不适合写好书。

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

我认为我这一生的部分目的就是谈论魔法,并创造它。

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

我不在乎他们怎么处理我的书,只要支票兑现就行。

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

很容易看到光芒,但很难意识到寂静的觉醒。

I live to write but, I read to live.

我活着是为了写作,但我读书是为了活着。

A true lover of books knows no time.

真正爱书的人不知道时间。