尼爾·蓋曼
十大后現(xiàn)代作家之一
書籍是我們與逝者溝通的方式。是我們從那些不再與我們同在的人那里學(xué)習(xí)教訓(xùn)的方式，人類以此為基礎(chǔ)，取得進(jìn)步，使知識(shí)逐漸積累，而不是一次又一次地重新學(xué)習(xí)。
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.
我喜歡星星。我想這是永恒的幻覺。我的意思是，它們總是在爆發(fā)、坍塌和熄滅。但從這里，我可以假裝……我可以假裝事物是永恒的。我可以假裝生命比瞬間更長(zhǎng)久。神來了，神又走了。凡人閃爍、閃耀然后消逝。世界不會(huì)持久；星星和星系是短暫的、轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝的東西，像螢火蟲一樣閃爍，然后消失在寒冷和塵埃中。但我可以假裝。
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
在你合適的年齡讀到的故事永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)完全離開你。你可能會(huì)忘記是誰寫的或者故事叫什么名字。有時(shí)你會(huì)忘記具體發(fā)生了什么，但如果一個(gè)故事觸動(dòng)了你，它會(huì)留在你身邊，縈繞在你腦海中很少訪問的地方。
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
當(dāng)你剛剛創(chuàng)造出以前不存在的東西時(shí)，世界似乎總是更明亮。
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
我希望在即將到來的這一年里，你會(huì)犯錯(cuò)誤。因?yàn)槿绻阍诜稿e(cuò)誤，那么你就是在創(chuàng)造新事物，嘗試新事物，學(xué)習(xí)，生活，推動(dòng)自己，改變自己，改變你的世界。你正在做你以前從未做過的事情，更重要的是，你正在做一些事情。
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
童話比真實(shí)更真實(shí)：不是因?yàn)樗鼈兏嬖V我們龍存在，而是因?yàn)樗鼈兏嬖V我們龍可以被擊敗。
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
你擁有別人沒有的東西，那就是你自己。你的聲音、你的思想、你的故事、你的愿景。所以寫作、繪畫、建造、玩耍、跳舞和生活，只有你能做到的方式。