Kiran Desai Quotes

India, Author
September 3, 1971

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

Also known as Novelist

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

Kiran Desai
New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

Kiran Desai
- Time
- City
- Travel

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere

Kiran Desai
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

Kiran Desai
- Time
- Important
- Dog
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Kiran Desai
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai
- Different