Quotes by Vikas Swarup

About Vikas Swarup:

Vikas Swarup is an Indian writer and diplomat who is best known as the author of the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.
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The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

Vikas Swarup

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

Vikas Swarup

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Vikas Swarup

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

Vikas Swarup

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

Vikas Swarup

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.

Vikas Swarup

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

Vikas Swarup

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.

Vikas Swarup

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

Vikas Swarup

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

Vikas Swarup

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.

Vikas Swarup

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Vikas Swarup

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.

Vikas Swarup

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

Vikas Swarup

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.

Vikas Swarup

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.

Vikas Swarup

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

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, enterta...

Vikas Swarup

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 crick...

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Author Bio

  • NameVikas Swarup
  • DescriptionIndian novelist and diplomat
  • Born1961
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionAuthor; Diplomat