Acquaintance Quote by Patricia Briggs

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

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

— Vikas Swarup

My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the settings in…

— Vandana Singh

I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the…

— Pankaj Mishra

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my…

— Khaled Hosseini

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire'…

— Shekhar Kapur

In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started…

— Markus Zusak

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

— Ian Doescher