Indian - Writer | March 17, 1963 -
I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.
Amitava Kumar
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In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.
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My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.
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I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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The lives of the young are so tumultuous.
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For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.
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Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.
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Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.
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I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
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A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true.
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To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.
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For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns.
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