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It was a warm evening, and there was less silk and more fine cotton than at Savita’s wedding. But the jewellery glittered just as gloriously. Meenakshi’s little pear-earrings, Veena’s navratan and Malati’s emeralds glinted across the garden, whispering to each other the stories of their owners.

Strange to be a man and never grow big with child. To feel a part of you opening, and a part of you leaving, and howling as if it were not a part of you.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

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.

Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

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’m not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I’m a hedgehog.

May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.

Sometimes i write the best about the things that I care about least.

I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

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.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day – one for each namaaz – ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet – towards the house of God in Mecca.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen – that nearly causes bloodshed.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.

Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her – the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.

You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.

I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.

I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

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.

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.

I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.

It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

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

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.

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.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

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