I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  • -- Vikas Swarup 维卡斯·斯瓦卢普

我是世界上最幸运的小说家。我是第一次写小说,没有被退稿单淹没,手稿也没有消失在烂泥堆里。我度过了一段美好的时光。

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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

有些女人可以一直被愚弄,所有的女人都可以被愚弄,但是同一个女人不能被同一个男人以同样的方式愚弄超过一半的时间。

I fantasize about not telling anyone & going off to some random place... and I'd just disappear, and they'd never all me again.

我幻想着不告诉任何人,去某个随便的地方……然后我就消失了,他们再也不会把我当人看了。

You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.

你有时想要消失,但你真正想要的是被发现。

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

在我的一生中,我看着文字,就像第一次看到它们一样。

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

我总觉得被拒绝是我的汽油。这就是我前进的动力。