Kiran Desai Quotes

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• No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...
• This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking…
• Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
• The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
• I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
• I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
• I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go…
• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.
• We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
• When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you…
• I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or,…
• If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're…
• In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The…
• When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of…
• Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
• All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows…
• Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
• Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in…

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