Indian Authors Quotes

If you ask me, I would love to see works like Sharat Chandra Chatterjee's 'Badi Didi,' Munshi Premchand's 'Nirmala,' and Phanishwar Nath Renu's 'Maila Anchal' come alive on small screen.

From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.

Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

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

I'm not too interested in books about India.

In India, we don't read thrillers; we read authors.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.

I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current situation and social issues. He wrote many books and I think he was my first influence.

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.