Bigs Quote by Amitava Kumar

“Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.” quote by Amitava Kumar — Download Open image

“Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”

Amitava Kumar

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Bigs Book Books Fragments Gestures Home Notes Odd Stories Taught Thinking Unfinished Unnecessary Vignettes Way

More by Amitava Kumar

I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent…

Amitava Kumar

Image

Any real piece of writing is an act of courage.

Amitava Kumar

Image

We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,…

Amitava Kumar

Image

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation…

Amitava Kumar

Image

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

Amitava Kumar

Image

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

Amitava Kumar

Image

“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”

Amitava Kumar

Image

We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,…

Amitava Kumar

Image

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

Amitava Kumar

Image

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and…

Amitava Kumar

Image

Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence…

Amitava Kumar

Image

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

Amitava Kumar

Image

Explore all 104 Amitava Kumar quotes

More Bigs quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

Image

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

Janet Jackson

Image

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let…

Kim Alexis

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Kenny Wormald

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

Gerry Cooney

Image

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His…

Roger Ebert