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Neel Mukherjee Quotes

I wouldn’t call myself a ‘literary critic,’ just a book reviewer Picture Quote #1

I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end Picture Quote #1

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you’re bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book Picture Quote #1

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart’s excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few ‘repeats.’ Picture Quote #1

The freedom fighters in India’s long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? Picture Quote #1

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became ‘A Life Apart.’ Picture Quote #1

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Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone’s job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don’t buy that at all Picture Quote #1

In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help Picture Quote #1

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of ‘The Lives of Others,’ should have a political soul Picture Quote #1

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I wouldn’t call myself a ‘literary critic,’ just a book reviewer (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end. (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you’re bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book. (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart’s excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few ‘repeats.’ (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) The freedom fighters in India’s long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became ‘A Life Apart.’ (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone’s job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don’t buy that at all. (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help. (Neel Mukherjee Quotes) To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of ‘The Lives of Others,’ should have a political soul. (Neel Mukherjee Quotes)