Bougainvillea Quote by Anita Desai

“Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. But it was dark and shadowy,…

— Anita Desai

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

— Anita Desai

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in…

— Anita Desai

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

— Anita Desai

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as…

— Anita Desai

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

— Anita Desai

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made…

— Anita Desai

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning…

— Anita Desai

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

— 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

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are…

— Anita Desai

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very…

— Anita Desai

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great…

— Anita Desai

“They never looked at anyone else, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an…

— Anita Desai