- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.
- Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020