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.

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.

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

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

I need to meet people to be able to write.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

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