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Kiran Desai has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...
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This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places,…
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Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
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The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
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I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
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I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
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I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every…
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The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.
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We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
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When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as…
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
— Joseph Epstein
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
— Kiran Desai
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
— Alvin Ailey
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take…
— Joshua Foer
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly…
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other…
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is…
— Mary McCarthy
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Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
— Steve Earle
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Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
— Lisa Unger
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Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
— Gerald Clarke
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