Anita Desai
Anita Desai
Anita Mazumdar Desaiis an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Academy Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Academy, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1937
Anita Desai quotes about
independence fists riches
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
romance fantasy telling-the-truth
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
wheels turns stills
The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
moon garden risk
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.
motivational disappointment book
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
focus half percent thinking time
When I am writing, I focus 100 percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.