Amish Tripathi Quotes

India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.

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• I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Book

• There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Respect
  • Literature

• In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.

  

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  • Guy
  • Science
  • Boy

• While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Life
  • God
  • Feeling

• As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

  

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  • Up
  • God
  • Important

• Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Book

• In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

  

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• If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Purpose

• Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Culture
  • Effort

• I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

  

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  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

  

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  • Believe
  • Simple

• I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!

  

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  • Book

• No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • God
  • She
  • Wife

• He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

  

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  • Singing

• I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

  

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  • Happy
  • Author

• Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

  

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  • Believe
  • Writing
  • English

• I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Time

• In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.

  

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  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Up
  • School
  • History

• The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.

  

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