Vikas Swarup Quotes

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.

I prefer writing originals.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

All experience helps when you write.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.