Vikas Swarup Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.”

“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.”

“I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'”

“The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.”

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

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

“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.”