7 Quotes by Visakan Veerasamy

Reading history is like binge-watching the highlight reels from past seasons of current affairs.

The most critical part of becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is to be “so prolific you don’t recognise yourself”. Once you cross that threshold you can actually look at your own work with a relatively objective, critical eye.

My allegiance is to the light of human consciousness.

A writer is a maniac who toils laboriously to assemble a sequence of squiggles that generate a parlor of hallucinations in an attempt to jailbreak her own mind out of the prison of her subvocalizations.

In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.

Don’t mistake insights for progress.

If you are moderately intelligent and have moderately decent taste, producing a stupidly large quantity of work and applying a modicum of taste when editing it will precipitate smart writing. Because you are smarter than you know, or even dare to believe.