Amitava Kumar Professions : Writer Born : March 17, 1963 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Amitava Kumar Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely. Amitava Kumar save escape save-the-world world I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books out of the window and dance! Amitava Kumar you dance song history Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing. Amitava Kumar gift great journalism writing My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. Amitava Kumar me always reality past I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past. Amitava Kumar you friends mother past In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction. Amitava Kumar think you nature writing My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it. Amitava Kumar be-happy happy world thinking I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny. Amitava Kumar she friend think funny The lives of the young are so tumultuous. Amitava Kumar tumultuous lives young Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors