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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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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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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
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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.
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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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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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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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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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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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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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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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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
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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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...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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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
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