Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.
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.
- Kiran Desai
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? - Kiran Desai
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
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.
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.
Sadness was so claustrophobic. - Kiran Desai
Sadness was so claustrophobic.
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…
A journey once begun, has no end - Kiran Desai
A journey once begun, has no end
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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