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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Vikas Swarup

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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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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 need to meet people to be able to write.
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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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One does not question a miracle.
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...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
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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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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
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My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
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