"I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons."

-- Upamanyu Chatterjee

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.”
“We have not eternal allies and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and peretual and those interests it is out duty to follow.”
“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
“Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
“Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.”
“I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.”
“It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.”

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