Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  • -- Vikas Swarup 维卡斯·斯瓦卢普

有时候街头知识和书本知识一样重要。

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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

当我要开始写一本书的时候,我会考虑两件事。首先,故事本身必须有一个戏剧性的弧线,让我和读者从头到尾都能读懂。其次,故事必须贯穿更大的主题,才能照亮主题的世界。

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

来自全国各地的人们写信给我,问我,有时甚至告诉我,他们认为桂冠诗人应该做什么。我发现这非常有价值。

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

没有名言的书不是书,而是一件玩物。

Sometimes when I miss you I put those records on.

有时候,当我想你的时候,我会把那些唱片放上去。