Ruskin Bond

I'm rather fond of my awards.

— Ruskin Bond

“Never mind,’ said Mr Kishore. ‘If you’re tired, I know just the thing for you—a nice cup of tea.’ I think it…

— Ruskin Bond

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as…

— Ruskin Bond

Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and…

— Ruskin Bond

“Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream.”

— Ruskin Bond

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

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“When God, the great mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even…

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Writing is the only thing I am good for.

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“We three, We’re not a crowd; We’re not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me… I”

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“I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.”

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“history shows human beings to be the most dangerous of nature’s show-offs. Inimical to each other, given over to greed and insatiable…

— Ruskin Bond

I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden…

— Ruskin Bond

“The deodar enjoys the company of its own kind: Where one deodar grows, there will be others. A walk in a deodar…

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“Trees make you feel younger. And the older the tree, the younger you feel. Whenever”

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The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town…

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I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds…

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I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

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I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

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“kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A”

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Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

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“Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow, A river to cross— A mountain to pass— Now we've four…

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All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have…

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There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

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“Give me a companion of my way, be it only to mention how the shadows lengthen as the sun declines,' wrote Hazlitt.…

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