Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

- 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

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

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

- Anita Desai

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

- Anita Desai

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

- Anita Desai

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

- Anita Desai

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motiva…

- Anita Desai

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

- Anita Desai