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Vikas Swarup Quotes

Indian - Novelist | -

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.

Life Challenge People Relationships

I need to meet people to be able to write.

People Meet Write Need Able

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

Home Community Small Opportunities

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.

Money Cricket Media Speed Attention

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.

Knowledge School College Someone Him

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

I Am Birds Magic Talk Where Realism

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

Yourself Writing Thought Lonely You

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

Myself Challenge First Working Novel

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Language Way Write English Freshness

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.

Light Accountability Voice Corruption

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