Skip to content

Kiran Desai Quotes

born 1971 India

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

India
Novelists

Random Kiran Desai quote

6 quotes

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

Attribution

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