First Quote by Rahul Dev

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

— Zane Grey

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

— Karan Bajaj

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

“the Bengali intellectual and author of the bestselling Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), with its cringe-worthy dedication to the British empire in India: To”

— Shashi Tharoor

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

— Salman Rushdie

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets…

— Lilly Singh

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small…

— Aravind Adiga

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

— Ariel Dorfman

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

— Carrie Underwood

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in…

— Alice Munro