Quotes from 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.

People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

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.

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

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

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

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

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.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

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.

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.

R?ng nh?ng Æ°á»›c mÆ¡ ch? có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a riêng ta. NhÆ°ng ti?n có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a ng??i khác.

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.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Khi bom n?, nÆ°á»›c s? thành không khí. Không khí s? thành lá»­a. M?t tr?i s? bi?n m?t. Má»™t Ä'ám mây kh?ng l? hình n?m s? dâng lên b?u tr?i. Và t?t c? chúng tôi s? ch?t.

In life, you get what you negotiated, not what you deserved.

In life you never get what you deserve: You get what you negotiate.

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.

And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

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.

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.

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?

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