Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  • -- Vikas Swarup 维卡斯·斯瓦卢普

知识不仅仅是受过教育的精英的专利。一个人没有受过正规教育,并不意味着他没有智慧和常识。

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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

我从外面进入了文学世界。我的全部背景都是科学;我在大学主修生物,然后去了医学院。我从未受过正式的写作训练。

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

一部好的小说应该是令人深感不安的——它的满足感应该来自它的真实性和形式上的连贯性。我们必须感觉到一些至关重要的事情正处于危险之中。

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

我不是一个在东北接受教育的自由派精英,比如,我只是一个密西西比的孩子。

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

我自己的教育。对我来说,学校很无聊。