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Kiran Desai quotes: When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Kiran Desai quotes: Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Kiran Desai quotes: Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

Kiran Desai quotes: Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Kiran Desai quotes: It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet.

It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet.

Kiran Desai quotes: Sadness was so claustrophobic.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

Kiran Desai quotes: The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy?

The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy?

Kiran Desai quotes: I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

Kiran Desai quotes: A journey once begun, has no end

A journey once begun, has no end

Kiran Desai quotes: We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

Kiran Desai quotes: I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai quotes: When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

Kiran Desai quotes: New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

Kiran Desai quotes: The Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

The Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

Kiran Desai quotes: Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.

Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.

Kiran Desai quotes: The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Kiran Desai quotes: Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.

Kiran Desai quotes: She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

Kiran Desai quotes: She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.

Kiran Desai quotes: No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana ...

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana ...

Kiran Desai quotes: it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed.

it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed.

Kiran Desai quotes: Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.

Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.

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

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

Kiran Desai quotes: You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

Kiran Desai quotes: Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Kiran Desai quotes: The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

Kiran Desai quotes: What was a country but the idea of it?

What was a country but the idea of it?

Kiran Desai quotes: The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

Kiran Desai quotes: I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.