Books Quote by Karan Bajaj

I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought…

— Karan Bajaj

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in…

— Salman Rushdie

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a…

— John Irving

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to…

— Karan Bajaj

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better…

— Joseph Boyden

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,

— Elizabeth Warren