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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

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

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

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

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

People evaluate you in terms of how you handle things going forward. — Chris Lehane

Sadness was so claustrophobic. — Kiran Desai

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

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

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

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

I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over. — Nyrae Dawn

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind. — Jim Rohn

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss. — Kiran Desai

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

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. — Umberto Eco

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

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere. — Kiran Desai

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

A journey once begun, has no end — Kiran Desai

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. — John Burns