I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

- Kiran Desai

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

- Kiran Desai

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

- Kiran Desai

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinkin…

- Kiran Desai

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

- Kiran Desai

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

- Kiran Desai

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

- Kiran Desai

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in…

- Kiran Desai

A journey once begun, has no end

- Kiran Desai