- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the way in which we are living in a much more explosive and more tension-filled society, a society that is driven with more and more contradictions, it is but unavoidable that some of this will also come into cinema. I would, in fact, argue that a part of it is borrowed from Hollywood. It's as if Quentin Tarantino has come to Mumbai.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.
- Nov 07, 2020
Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
- Erect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020