Top 60 Indian Fiction Quotes
#1. There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
Hari Kunzru
#2. There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
Hari Kunzru
#3. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?
Renita D'Silva
#4. I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?
Renita D'Silva
#6. It's beyond your consciousness that your soul lingers with the person you love and hence your mood will affect the one you love. This is the reason why you sometimes sense your mood changing mysteriously with no reason.
Udai Yadla
#7. There's a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain ...
Renita D'Silva
#8. Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.
Udai Yadla
#9. Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans
Marilyn Bay Wentz
#10. Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?
Renita D'Silva
#11. Every time you think of your dad, you're
resurrecting him. Why shouldn't he continue to live
in this world while resting in the other?
Clyde DeSouza
#13. The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.
Anurag Shourie
#14. Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.
Renita D'Silva
#15. When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.
Udai Yadla
#16. I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
Karan Johar
#17. But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#18. In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#19. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them
Renita D'Silva
#20. It's difficult to fight when you have no idea who your enemy is.
Sudha Kuruganti
#21. Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.
Udai Yadla
#22. Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.
Udai Yadla
#23. You have not failed until you accept your failure.
Udai Yadla
#24. You don't live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,' Reena was indignant. 'It's five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.
Renita D'Silva
#25. We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.
Aravind Adiga
#27. Even the Sun shed tears once in a while
Sheeja Jose
#28. You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don't run around naked.'Why?'They just don't.
Renita D'Silva
#29. When you stop complaining about others for not helping you and focus on your efforts; there's no stopping you.
Udai Yadla
#30. Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.
Udai Yadla
#31. She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#32. Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Harshit Walia
#33. What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!
Renita D'Silva
#34. Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.
Brad Jensen
#35. Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy
Sheeja Jose
#36. Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy.
Udai Yadla
#37. I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.
Renita D'Silva
#38. the influence of organised crime reaches into the economy, our politics and everyday life- dongri to dubai
S. Hussain Zaidi
#39. You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?
Renita D'Silva
#41. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#43. Mistakes are not bad; excuses are.
Udai Yadla
#44. I uttered the wisest thing that you must say to an angry woman - "I'm sorry.
Mita Jain
#45. A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities.
Ashwin Sanghi
#46. When it's possible for you to dream, it's not impossible to achieve.
Udai Yadla
#47. Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.
Udai Yadla
#48. The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank account in a small, beautiful country in Europe full of white people and black money.
Aravind Adiga
#49. What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?'You are saving your family.
Renita D'Silva
#50. Every family has secrets, Reena, and they're there for a reason.
Renita D'Silva
#51. But he's an untouchable, Shirin.' 'He's my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.
Renita D'Silva
#52. She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn't a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.
Renita D'Silva
#53. Oh Pia, I feel GOOD! Fully recovered!' he always says in a dazzling tone that tells everyone within a ten-kilometre radius that he's not.
Aditi Mathur Kumar
#54. What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad?
Renita D'Silva
#56. When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.
Udai Yadla
#57. There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.
Bharati Mukherjee
#58. If Allah has willed it that way ... He must have better plans for you child ...
K. Hari Kumar
#59. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#60. What wouldn't my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?
Renita D'Silva
