Writer Quotes by Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I…

— Neel Mukherjee

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

— Neel Mukherjee

In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party…

— Neel Mukherjee

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find…

— Neel Mukherjee

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

— Neel Mukherjee

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.

— Neel Mukherjee

It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all.…

— Neel Mukherjee

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how…

— Neel Mukherjee

“Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own kind measured…

— Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the…

— Neel Mukherjee

The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author,…

— Neel Mukherjee

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

— Neel Mukherjee