My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

  • -- Vikas Swarup 维卡斯·斯瓦卢普

我的第一部小说对我自己是个挑战。没有人知道我在做这件事。

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But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

但是你知道,孩子们在某一天完成了他们的家庭作业,一对一的工作,得到所有的关注——他们回家,他们完成了。他们不会拖延,他们不会在电视机前做作业。

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

人们对老小说最常见的两种指责是,它让人感到邪恶地愉悦,它没有教给人们任何东西,但在人们发现这部小说既适合于正当使用,又适合于娱乐之前,这两种指责就已经站不住脚了。

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

你的组织中有越多的工人,你就越容易融入工人阶级,你就越有可能提出这个阶级的具体问题。

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

对我来说,一本故事书和一本小说没有什么区别——它们只是形状略有不同。