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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.
Vikas Swarup
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More quotes by Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New neighbors will bring good cheer. A small problem may occur at home base, but you will solve it quickly and correctly. Don't offer smart advice unless you are really asked to comment.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
Vikas Swarup
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Vikas Swarup
I need to meet people to be able to write.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Vikas Swarup
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Vikas Swarup
One does not question a miracle.
Vikas Swarup
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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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
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
Vikas Swarup
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
Vikas Swarup
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.
Vikas Swarup
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
Vikas Swarup
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup