Vikas Swarup Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Weekend

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• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  Vikas Swarup

  Rejection, Novelists, World

  "I'm the luckiest novelist in the world" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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

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  Writing, People, Needs

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

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  Bird, Angry Birds, Angry

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• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

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  Doe, Boundaries, Terror

  "Mumbai is my kind of city" by Vikas Swarup, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2008.

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• 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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  Firsts, Desperate, Notes

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

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  Challenges, Firsts, Novel

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• I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

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  Believe, Doors, Festivals

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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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  Writing, Giving, Way

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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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  Boys, Bad Boy, Delhi

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