50 Quotes by Neel Mukherjee

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.