Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Vikas Swarup
Age: 54
Diplomat
Novelist
Writer
Prayag
Meaning
Monsoon
Open
Monsoons
Persons
Rainy
Person
Ceases
Life
Cloud
Cease
Clouds
Lived
More quotes by Vikas Swarup
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.
Vikas Swarup
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
Vikas Swarup
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar they want to connect more deeply.
Vikas Swarup
One does not question a miracle.
Vikas Swarup
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
Vikas Swarup
I need to meet people to be able to write.
Vikas Swarup
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
Vikas Swarup
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
Vikas Swarup
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
Vikas Swarup
That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Vikas Swarup
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.
Vikas Swarup