Vikas Swarup Quotes
- Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills…
- 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,…
- And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
- 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…
- A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
- Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
- God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
- That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others
- 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…
- The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
- You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New…
- I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
- I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
- Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
- 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…
- Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
- 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…
- Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
- It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice…
- Global terror does not respect national boundaries.