Anita Desai Professions : Novelist Born : June 24, 1937 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Anita Desai Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. Anita Desai athlete writing sports Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. Anita Desai great-travel traveler travel Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood? Anita Desai locks rivers moving What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence. Anita Desai independence pockets fists India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. Anita Desai modern-india country past My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. Anita Desai style writing trying Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood? Anita Desai childhood return self I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. Anita Desai stories trying character Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. Anita Desai mind writing school Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book. Anita Desai disappointment motivational book ...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being. Anita Desai risk garden moon The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. Anita Desai believe book past I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. Anita Desai fantasy romance telling-the-truth When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. Anita Desai my-family conscious self When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending. Anita Desai writing book thinking The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still. Anita Desai turns wheels stills People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way. Anita Desai writing people thinking Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. Anita Desai better india people thinking Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
