Favourite Quote by Amitava Kumar Download Open image “My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.” — Amitava Kumar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favourite John John Maxwell Writer Writing
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
In non-fiction, I like Wayne Dyer. I have a compilation of his best quotes near my bed! To me he's one of the finest… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction writing, something… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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.… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on,… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had to pick favourite parts of Interlagos, I would say the first and last corners. The first corner is really technical and… — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman. — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time… — Colin Kazim-Richards Copy Share Image
Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one. — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image