Anita Desai quotes
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“Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "10 kick-ass benefits of travelling with your kid(s)" by Devishobha Ramanan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
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“Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
-- Anita DesaiSource : Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?”
-- Anita DesaiSource : The Clear Light of Day ch. 1 (1980)
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“When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.”
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“When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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“The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.”
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“...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.”
-- Anita DesaiSource : Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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