269 Quotes by Ruskin Bond

Unlike the adults, the children didn’t have to pretend. They were full of praise for the umbrella. It was so light, so pretty, so bright a blue! And it was just the right size for Binya. They knew that if they said nice things about the umbrella, Binya would smile and give it to them to hold for a little while – just a very little while! Soon.

One sure way to lose the world and everything in it, is to try grasping it.

In times of crisis, it’s wonderful what the imagination will do.

Bad times are good times to prepare for better times.

The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.

It isn’t time that’s passing by, it is you and I. It.

On the open road we are all brothers.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.