Santha Rama Rau Professions : Writer Born : January 24, 1923 Died : April 21, 2009 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Santha Rama Rau Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally. Santha Rama Rau honesty writing people India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them. Santha Rama Rau important country people it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth. Santha Rama Rau museums people art to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering. Santha Rama Rau india silence weather Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
