Indian Quotes

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

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

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.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than l

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times