Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
I want to learn English.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.
