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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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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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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.
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God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
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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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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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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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One does not question a miracle.
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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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...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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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 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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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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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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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 writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
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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
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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