Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
God save us from people who mean well.
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.