If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

如果一个作家在评价自己的作品时需要谦虚和坦率，那么他的读者也同样需要谦虚和坦率。

-- Sarah Fielding 莎拉·菲尔丁