Books Quote by Rajkumar Hirani

Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.

— Atul Kulkarni

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

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

— Karan Bajaj

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills.

— Vidyasagar

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

I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal and Majaaz.…

— Anubhav Sinha

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

— Mira Nair

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I…

— 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

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

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