Vikas Swarup Quotes

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

I don't have time for friends.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything I've sort of got going on. I'm really passionate about it; there's not that much time left over for the other commissioned projects.

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.

I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.' And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'

I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.

I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

I've met so many older actors and comedians who've told me they wished they'd spent as much time with their kids as they did chasing the money. You've got to draw a line but it's a gamble.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.

One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.

I would shoot for long periods in Chennai, and now I wish I spent more time with my family. That is what matters the most.

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.