When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but … - Anita Desai

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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

Anita Desai

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

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Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

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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.

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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

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