Author Quote by Anurag Shourie Download Open image ““The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.”” — Anurag Shourie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Author Authors Authors-quote Books English language English literature Indian-author Indian-authors Indian-fiction Time
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Everyone in this world is Abhimanyu, the difference being that most of us are trapped in a labyrinth of our own creation. It takes… — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Be it a 'slide' in a children’s park, or one in the play-fields of life; the mantra is same. “You climb up and you… — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination; doesn’t hurt to be in… — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the… — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one,… — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation.… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
