Adult Quote by Sherman Alexie

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

— Sherman Alexie

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as…

— Karan Mahajan

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian,…

— James Welch

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

— Vikram Seth

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

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

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

— Sherman Alexie

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a…

— Karan Mahajan

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

— Zane Grey

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any…

— Amitava Kumar

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