"My style of writing is to allow the……" — Anita Desai

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on… - Anita Desai

"My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly."

— Anita Desai

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15 Quotes by Anita Desai

Anita Desai has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense…
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes,…
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family…
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read…
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I…
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through…
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished.…
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as…

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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