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Neel Mukherjee
Indian Writer
Born: 1970
Book Day Good Think Writing You
Related authors: Amitava Kumar Aravind Adiga Bharati Mukherjee Munshi Premchand Om Malik Pico Iyer Shakuntala Devi
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book. Neel Mukherjee
Good Day You Book Sit Think State One Day Must Bored Boredom Write Writers Head Germ Very Place Cook Your Suddenly Away Things
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? Neel Mukherjee
Time Freedom History Struggle Independence Long National Before Congress Once Rule Say Those Members Must Tricky Corridor India Long Struggle Written Also Revealed How Terrorists How Much How Much Time Were Cunning African Victors Much Fighters Many They Say British
Work defines our lives and our place in the world. Neel Mukherjee
Work World Our Our Lives Defines Place Lives
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. Neel Mukherjee
Myself Dangerous Luxury Books Allow Idea Read Doing Differently Things
I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. Neel Mukherjee
Myself Book Critic Call Reviewer Just Literary
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. Neel Mukherjee
Today Remember Cause Tomorrow Worse Seems Ridicule
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that. Neel Mukherjee
Rare Once Month Circumstances Ate Financially Rare Thing About Up Expensive Grew Which Meat Thing
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.' Neel Mukherjee
Good Food Day Every Day Book First Few Every Too Extraordinarily Indeed Possible Introduced India Easy See Eat Varied Excellent Stuart Vegetarian Vegetarianism Repeats Very Britain
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres. Neel Mukherjee
Politics Good Hate Affliction Immigrant Kind Feel Particular Genres Led Fiction Nostalgia Form Aware
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work. Neel Mukherjee
Work Business Wealth Rest Adultery Revolution Relationships Our Our Lives Defines All Our Lives Find About Given Written Talk Odd Itself Labor Us Much Lives Damage
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go. Neel Mukherjee
You Book Tells Well Go Going Where
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul. Neel Mukherjee
Soul Made Longing Think Films Extremely Wring He Powerful Left Hands Intense Nostalgia After Your Right
I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end. Neel Mukherjee
Me Experience Book Made Publish Changes Gave Out Bad Only Outside She Understood Lot Contract End Very Wanted In The End Who Publisher Reject
I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink. Neel Mukherjee
Good You Writing Joy Think Way Find See About Something Properly Good Way Had Taking Render Readers Blink Go Truthfully Going Just Where Want Realist Then Novel Why Why Not
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside. Neel Mukherjee
You Yourself Mirror Looking Pane Back Clean Outside Glass Reflecting Fiction Either
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all. Neel Mukherjee
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