Top 34 Quotes by Vikas Swarup

About Vikas Swarup

These are some quotes by Indian author Vikas Swarup 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.

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.

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

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

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

Vikas Swarup

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

Vikas Swarup

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

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

Vikas Swarup

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.

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.

Vikas Swarup

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

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

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, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Vikas Swarup

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

Vikas Swarup

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

Vikas Swarup

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