I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.
Sadness was so claustrophobic. - Kiran Desai
Sadness was so claustrophobic.
- Kiran Desai
A journey once begun, has no end - Kiran Desai
A journey once begun, has no end
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. - Kiran Desai
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? - Kiran Desai
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. - Kiran Desai
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. - Kiran Desai
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly. - Kiran Desai
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
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
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…
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
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…
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