Alike Quote by Amitava Kumar

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

— Vikram Seth

“I take it this is some obscure West Indian usage of the word 'similar' which means 'nothing at all alike'?”

— Neil Gaiman

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

— Douglas Kennedy

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap…

— Hari Kunzru

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the…

— Pankaj Mishra

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind…

— Ezra Stiles

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

— Karan Mahajan

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett