"I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India."

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Source : Sunday Hindu Interview, devdutt.com. November 1, 2009.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#Writing Quotes #Focus Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“Meant to be?â€™ It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.”
“The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.”
“Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”
“As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.”

Source : "Characters in Fiction". Partisan Review, March/April 1961.
“War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.”
“When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.”
“More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.”

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