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Kiran Desai Quotes

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

Kiran Desai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: indian
Birth: September 3, 1971

Topics

Mother Growing Up World Book Look

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

John C. Maxwell

Change Principles Will Never Many

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

Joel Salatin

Time Death New Things Think New Try

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

John Ortberg

Together Soul World Worth You Teeth

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Financial Credit You Look Wall Why

I've never worried about age.

Jeanne Moreau

Age Never About Worried

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

John Sayles

God Writing Boots You Pay Pigs

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

Good Father Parents Me Play Old

I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life.

Lizz Wright

Life Live Me My Life Want Out

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Lord Byron

Ocean Man Blue Control Deep Dark

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

Doug Baldwin

Freedom Speech Freedom Of Speech

I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.

Chris Roberson

Story End Point Lines Approach Than

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

Suzanne Farrell

Discipline Sit Note Still Instrument