Top 41 Indian Writing Quotes
#1. 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 slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.
Aravind Adiga
#2. My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
Sherman Alexie
#3. Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other!
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#5. The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.
Anurag Shourie
#6. I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
Emmet Gowin
#7. Twilight hour. Indian blue, water of glass, trees glistening and liquescent.
Henry Miller
#8. Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
Benjamin Rush
#9. When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.
John McLaughlin
#10. sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me.
Sanober Khan
#11. some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other.
Sanober Khan
#12. I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.
Michael McMillian
#13. I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.
Katie Aselton
#16. In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.
Shashi Tharoor
#17. Usually it was like spillage- cold and heavy, slippery and gray- but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes.
Markus Zusak
#18. The difference between you and I Dre is that i can take a bad experience and make money off it, You just have to live with yours until time blurs your memory of the details.
Most writers i know aren't beautiful by society's standard. Writing is not modelling but Writer's do have beautiful souls.
Crystal Evans
#19. The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.
Angelo Sodano
#20. The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride
Jhoomur Bose
#21. Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?
George F. Kennan
#22. My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.
Arundhati Roy
#23. Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.
Jean Helion
#24. All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#25. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.
Sanober Khan
#26. I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
Sherman Alexie
#27. I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.
Mindy Kaling
#28. i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words
i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears.
Sanober Khan
#29. Poetry keeps me
in a highly drunken state
of divinity.
Sanober Khan
#30. Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
Robert Vaughn
#31. I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it,
Jean Shrimpton
#32. I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
Jimmy Carl Black
#33. i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.
Sanober Khan
#34. A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.
Jenny Offill
#35. Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.
Gene Simmons
#36. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue." So that's how I got into it.
Mindy Kaling
#37. This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.
Sanober Khan
#38. I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.
Joey Lauren Adams
#39. In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
Salman Rushdie
#40. all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots.
Sanober Khan
#41. The statement 'There is nothing more American than an Indian' happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Charles Slagle
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