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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
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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.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?
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My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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One does not question a miracle.
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The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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