So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
A bombing was planned [in Syria], which would probably make the situation worse, but would at least establish US credibility.
When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.