Books Quote by Kiran Desai Download Open image “The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.” — Kiran Desai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Publishing Reader World
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“How could anything be the same? The red of blood lay over the market road in slick pools mingled with a yellow spread of… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh,… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized.… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust winnowed to softness at his feet, ad… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“That very afternoon the police arrived at Cho Oyu in a line of toad-colored jeeps that appeared through the moving static of a small… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“The judge got down on his knees, and he prayed to God, he, Jemubhai Popatlal the agnostic, who had made a long hard journey… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
