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That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
Diplomat
Novelist
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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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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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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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...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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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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One does not question a miracle.
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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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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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Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.
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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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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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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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Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
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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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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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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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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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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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