Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
Diplomat
Novelist
Writer
Prayag
Thing
Closets
Never
Desperate
Notes
Writer
Understand
Cupboard
Away
Cupboards
Firsts
Filing
First
Closet
More quotes by 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 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?
Vikas Swarup
One does not question a miracle.
Vikas Swarup
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
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.
Vikas Swarup
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
Vikas Swarup
Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
Vikas Swarup
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
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
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
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Vikas Swarup
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
Vikas Swarup
The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
Vikas Swarup
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
Vikas Swarup
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
I need to meet people to be able to write.
Vikas Swarup
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
Vikas Swarup