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Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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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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God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
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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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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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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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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
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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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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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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
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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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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Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
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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.
Vikas Swarup
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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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.
Vikas Swarup
I need to meet people to be able to write.
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