Hari Kunzru Quotes

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Critchley and Webster's fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a job in a bookshop.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

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

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order.

There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

She thought she was a feminist. She was only bad tempered.