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Ruskin Bond
Indian
Author
Born:
May 19
,
1934
Am
Books
Good
Me
Writing
You
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Ashwin Sanghi
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.
Ruskin Bond
Good
Writing
Become
Living
Out
Writer
Good Writer
Make
May
Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.
Ruskin Bond
Me
Heart
Writing
Young
May
Children
Kept
The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.
Ruskin Bond
Love
Heart
Late
Late Teens
Teens
Books
Wrote
Were
Love Stories
Stories
Little
Right
I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.
Ruskin Bond
Car
Hopeless
Drive
Machinery
Except
Could
Never
Learn
Am
Wall
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.
Ruskin Bond
Library
Remember
Books
Tried
Favourite
Having
Writers
Read
Emulate
Up
Often
Growing
Growing Up
A few years after my father's death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for 'better prospects' in 1951. Those four years were not easy.
Ruskin Bond
Death
Me
Better
Mother
Father
Few
Those
Easy
Kingdom
Prospects
Were
Years
After
Sent
United
United Kingdom
Four
I can't live in a room without a window.
Ruskin Bond
Live
Window
Without
Room
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.
Ruskin Bond
Life
Great
Mother
Rest
My Life
Become
Incurable
Remain
Had
Stepfather
Instead
Wished
Becoming
Might
The transition from an English father to a Punjabi stepfather demanded an adjustment that was far from easy for a 10-year-old boy who had just lost his father.
Ruskin Bond
Father
Lost
Adjustment
Easy
Had
Stepfather
Demanded
Boy
His
Just
Transition
Far
English
Who
I'm rather fond of my awards.
Ruskin Bond
Fond
Rather
Awards
I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.
Ruskin Bond
Memory
Remember
Books
Excellent
Read
Authors
I like talking to visitors, especially children.
Ruskin Bond
Visitors
Like
Talking
Children
I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'
Ruskin Bond
Funny
Old
Books
Bailey
Like
Liked
Comic
Comic Books
Beetle
Popeye
My mother wanted me to join the Indian army, as the army was seen as a decent and respectable career to have. I shocked my mother by telling her that I wanted to be a writer.
Ruskin Bond
Me
Army
Mother
Seen
Respectable
Telling
Indian
Join
Writer
Shocked
Decent
Wanted
Her
Career
I have been apolitical all my life.
Ruskin Bond
Life
My Life
All My Life
Been
Apolitical
I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.
Ruskin Bond
Work
Good
Writing
Long
Good Work
Enough
Run
Kinds
Outlast
Long Run
Suppose
Shoddy
Room
Solitude helps you reflect.
Ruskin Bond
You
Solitude
Reflect
Helps
Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.
Ruskin Bond
Writing
Unhappy
Unsettled
Childhood
Helps
Writing is the only thing I am good for.
Ruskin Bond
Good
Writing
Only
Am
The Only Thing
Thing
I enjoy the process of writing.
Ruskin Bond
Writing
Enjoy
Process
I am not really a city person.
Ruskin Bond
City
Am
Person
Really
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