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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Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

在我看来,没有作家在写作过程中不经历痛苦,就不会有好的作品。写作应该是一种乐趣,但除非你在写小说的过程中多次感到几乎崩溃,否则你还没有给自己足够的压力。

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

水门事件是一桩极其复杂的丑闻,涉及的人物形形色色,就像托尔斯泰的小说一样。

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

并不是我们所有的工作都是黑暗的,但是当我们在做一个黑暗的项目时,我们确实倾向于这样做。

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

我的剧本是由长独白组成的,类似于用语言写成的散文。