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Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Back
Clean
Either
Fiction
Glass
Looking
Mirror
Outside
Reflecting
You
Yourself
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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.
~ Neel Mukherjee
About
Adultery
All Our Lives
Business
Damage
Defines
Find
Given
Itself
Labor
Lives
Much
Odd
Our
Our Lives
Relationships
Rest
Revolution
Talk
Us
Wealth
Work
Written
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I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Allow
Books
Dangerous
Differently
Doing
Idea
Luxury
Myself
Read
Things
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I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.
~ Neel Mukherjee
About
Ate
Circumstances
Expensive
Financially
Grew
Meat
Month
Once
Rare
Rare Thing
Thing
Up
Which
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I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
~ Neel Mukherjee
Apart
Became
Began
Begun
Creative
Creative Writing
Had
Just
Later
Life
Novel
Write
Writing
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I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Bad
Book
Changes
Contract
End
Experience
Gave
In The End
Lot
Made
Me
Only
Out
Outside
Publish
Publisher
Reject
She
Understood
Very
Wanted
Who
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I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.
~ Neel Mukherjee
About
Contemporary
Each
Hate
Just
Like
Novel
Novels
Other
People
Philosophical
Rather
Relationships
Sit
Start
Talk
Than
Theoretical
Theory
Where
Which
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I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
~ Neel Mukherjee
About
Blink
Find
Go
Going
Good
Good Way
Had
I Think
Joy
Just
Novel
Properly
Readers
Realist
Render
See
Something
Taking
Then
Think
Truthfully
Want
Way
Where
Why
Why Not
Writing
You
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I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Book
Call
Critic
Just
Literary
Myself
Reviewer
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I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Attracted
Cultures
Harmony
More
Much
Than
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In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Alight
Any
Central
Combination
Dinner
Dinner Party
Dish
Dishes
Eyes
Failure
First
Greed
Help
I Think
Meat
Menu
Moral
Party
Please
Pull
Restaurant
Someone
Think
Throw
View
Weakness
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India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
~ Neel Mukherjee
Book
Britain
Day
Easy
Eat
Every
Every Day
Excellent
Extraordinarily
Few
First
Food
Good
Indeed
India
Introduced
Possible
Repeats
See
Too
Varied
Vegetarian
Vegetarianism
Very
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Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.
~ Neel Mukherjee
American
Dangerous
Dangerous Thing
Destructive
Find
How
Idiot
Innocence
Know
Matter
Out
Pretty
Quiet
Revisit
Thing
You
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It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Always
Away
Because
Engage
Get
Good
Lot
Much
Put
Read
Reviews
Them
Then
Too
Too Much
Who
Writers
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Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Because
Caste
Choose
Could
Day
Eat
Every
Every Day
Familiar
Find
Indian
Inexplicable
Madness
Me
Meal
Meat
One Thing
Reasons
Religious
Seemed
Something
Thing
Upbringing
Used
Vegetarian
Vegetarianism
You
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Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.
~ Neel Mukherjee
After
Extremely
Films
Hands
He
Intense
Left
Longing
Made
Nostalgia
Powerful
Right
Soul
Think
Your
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Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Affliction
Aware
Feel
Fiction
Form
Genres
Good
Hate
I Feel
Immigrant
Kind
Led
Nostalgia
Particular
Politics
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One writes what one can, or has to, write.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Write
Writes
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Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Cause
Remember
Ridicule
Seems
Today
Tomorrow
Worse
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The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
~ Neel Mukherjee
Author
Bestseller
Better
Both
Charts
Copies
Frequency
Indicator
Money
Numbers
Public
Relentless
Right
Say
Some
Sum
Sure
Taste
Tell
Than
Us
White
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