R.K. Narayan Quotes

India, Writer
October 10, 1906 – May, 13, 2001.

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), was an Indian writer known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

R.K. Narayan
- Death
- Produce
- Shock
You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

R.K. Narayan
- Writing
- Yoga

Life is about making right things and going on.

R.K. Narayan
- Life
- Life is
- Right Thing
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

R.K. Narayan
- Life
- Truth
- Profound
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

R.K. Narayan
- Time
- Society
- Progress
This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

R.K. Narayan
- Children
- Cutting
- Saws
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

R.K. Narayan
- Men
- Mean
- Criticism
We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

R.K. Narayan
- Men
- Question
- Facts

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

R.K. Narayan
- People
- Friends
- Together
If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

R.K. Narayan
- Work
- Mother
- Law