This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

- R.K. Narayan

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

- R.K. Narayan

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings …

- R.K. Narayan

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

- R.K. Narayan

We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mothe…

- R.K. Narayan

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was t…

- R.K. Narayan

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

- R.K. Narayan

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

- R.K. Narayan

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

- R.K. Narayan