"It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it."

-- Karan Mahajan

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Bad laws make bad customs.”

Source : Jane Aiken Hodge (2014). “Watch the Wall, My Darling”, p.16, A&C Black
“What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.”

Source : "IGN Interviews ILM's Dennis Muren". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 30, 2005.
“As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.”

Source : "Ricki Lee Don't Miss You". Ricki Lee Don't Miss You, www.girl.com.au.
“Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Oct 30, 2014
“The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“California: Sunny nutland.”
“The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.”
“Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.”

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