Amitava Kumar Quotes

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Writer
  • Autobiographical

• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Conceptual

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Writer
  • Only
  • Unemployment

• Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Know

• I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Weird

• On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Opinions

• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Reality
  • Stop

• I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

  

  Joshua Slocum
  • Changed
  • Writer
  • Hurricane

• Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Failure
  • Poverty
  • Hardship

• Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Inspired

• My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

  

  Amitava Kumar
  • Reality
  • Writer
  • Outsider