Q&a Vikas Swarup Quotes

#1. The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

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#2. India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

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

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#4. I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

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

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#6. And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

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#7. The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.

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#8. The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

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#9. 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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#10. We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.

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#11. 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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#12. The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

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#13. Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors 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.

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#14. 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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#15. 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.

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#16. Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

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#17. 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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#18. Your beauty is an elixir.
Which has given an orphan life.
Lovesick I will die, from the grave I will cry
Should you decline to become my wife.

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

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#20. Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

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#21. 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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#22. It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

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#23. I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.

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#24. Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

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#25. All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

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#26. A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

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#27. 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.

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#28. I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

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#29. Because luck comes from within

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#30. It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

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#31. You have been counting rosary beads for an era
But the wandering of your mind does not halt
Forsake the beads in your hand
And start moving the beads of your heart.

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#32. Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.

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