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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Travel
Great Travel
Traveler
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The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Stills
Turns
Wheels
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Truth
Aim
Fantasy
Romance
Telling The Truth
Avoid
Subject
Tell
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
Anita Desai / Novelist
People
Thinking
Writing
People Way Trying
Portray
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I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Character
Plot
Stories
Trying
Characters
Connection
Emerges
Trace
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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.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Structure
Style
Trying
Writing
Allow
Story
Unfold
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Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
Anita Desai / Novelist
Childhood
Return
Self
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When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Book
Thinking
Writing
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
Anita Desai / Novelist
History
Country
Curious
India
Matter
Modern
Modern India
Past
Preserves
Very
Much
Becomes
Old
Religions
How
Still
Place
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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.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Family
Conscious
My Family
Process
Self
Self Conscious
Share
Young
Became
Older
Private
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...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Garden
Moon
Risk
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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.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Independence
Fists
Pockets
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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?
Anita Desai / Novelist
Locks
Moving
Rivers
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Motivational
Accomplished
Book
Disappointment
Becomes
Follows
Hoped
However
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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.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Sports
Athlete
Effort
Practice
Skills
Writing
Athletes
Effort Day Every Day
Sport
Wants
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Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Mind
School
Taught
Writing
Love Best World
Since
Read
Occupy
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Backwards
Believe
Book
Digging
Family History
Impression
Past
Ancestors
Begins
Tunnel
Visits
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Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
Anita Desai / Novelist
Air
Superiority
Western
Caste
Exist
Representative
Types
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