Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

- Anita Desai

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 …

- Anita Desai

...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 …

- 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 …

- Anita Desai

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 rich…

- Anita Desai

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

- Anita Desai

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

- Anita Desai

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

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

- Anita Desai