Vikas Swarup Quotes

• My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

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• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

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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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• 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’m the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

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• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we’re all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

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• I need to meet people to be able to write.

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• I don’t look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

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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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• I became completely addicted to ‘Angry Birds’ for a while.

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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 am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi’s St Stephen’s. I am an Allahabad boy.

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• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

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Vikas Swarup (34)

Birth:	1963
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Civil Servant, Diplomat, Novelist

About

Vikas Swarup was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in a family of lawyers. He did his schooling at Boys' High School & College, Allahabad and pursued further studies at Allahabad University in Psychology, History and Philosophy.

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