“I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.” Quote by Arthur Bradford
“I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat which got thrown out a window by mistake, but those never made it into the collection.” MadeStoriesAnimalMistakeCatWindowMade ItCollectionsThrownBeesSlugsMollusks Author:Arthur Bradford
“I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.” KnowsWritingYoungKnow HowAdultsMarkYoung AdultLondonClassicDickens Author:Arthur Bradford
“I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or another, some of them have been rejected a lot, in fact. Find people you trust and listen to them.” PeopleHas BeensFactsStoriesCollectionsOne TimeRejectedPublication Author:Arthur Bradford
“I don't think anybody in the world is perfect. I don't think anybody is absolutely good or bad or stupid. Each one of us combines all those qualities in our daily lives, I think.” ThinkingWorldPerfectQualityStupidDaily Life Author:Anita Rau Badami
“In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.” KnowsMenWorldWritingMeanStillsBookDifferentCountryHomeMightHouseHalfThis WorldParticularTypePersonalityPopulationRangeQueensExploringIncarnationPersonality Types Author:Anita Rau Badami
“It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.” PeopleKindEndsChristianNamesSidesStreetsHundredIndiaBasesCatholicAll KindsCelebrateRitualBizarreFestivalsProtestants Author:Anita Rau Badami
“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” WantHeartVoiceQuietMusicianLoudIntrovertSinger SongwritersPianistLoud VoicesQuiet Heart Author:Billy Joel
“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensMatterCareChristianSpaceStreetsBuildingCostAreasDistinctionTouchedUrbanJust LiveCastesNobody CaresUrban AreasBrahmins Author:Anita Rau Badami
“We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.” PeopleKnowsWayDoePlayCharacterCertainExpectationsLengthMatureFictional Character Author:David Duchovny
“It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.” PeopleThinkingYearsInterestingHavensChangedWeightObsceneMatured Author:David Duchovny