129 Quotes by Aravind Adiga

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.