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Anita Desai has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the…
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is…
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I…
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too…
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I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
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Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school,…
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older…
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When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book,…
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it…
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...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a…
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The composite chapters of life's book are written on delicate layers of feelings and memories. Once torn, these pages remain blemished.
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