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I need to meet people to be able to write.
Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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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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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
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Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
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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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One does not question a miracle.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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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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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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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
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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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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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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 am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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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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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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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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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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God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
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