Hope Quote by Gulzar

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

— Gulzar

Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.

— Gulzar

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

— Gulzar

Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a few. There…

— Gulzar

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

— Gulzar

My country is India but my motherland remains Pakistan.

— Gulzar

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

— Gulzar

In film lyrics, I avoid Persianised words because they are not widely understood.

— Gulzar

A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.

— Gulzar

The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.

— Gulzar

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

— Gulzar

When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader knows Urdu…

— Gulzar