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Anita Desai Quotes

born 1937 India

Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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It is a great influence on one's thoughts to be always on the outside, not belonging.

The Guardian (2011)

She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived. (III, p110)

Clear Light Of Day (1980)

It is astonishing that now a whole generation has grown up reading Indian literature in English. Nothing was being read when I was a student. We read no Indian writers at all.

The Guardian (2011)

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. (Baruch College Class Interview, 2003)

I think everything one reads tends to linger on in one's writing, even after one's forgotten the book one's read. (The Massachusetts Review, 1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anita Desai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.