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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

Vikas Swarup

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Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
Diplomat
Novelist
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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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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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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 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.
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God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
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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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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 writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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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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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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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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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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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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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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Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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