Muthusamy Varadarajan Quotes & Sayings

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.' — Craig Ferguson

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much. — Helen Fielding

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. — Max Von Sydow

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view. — Samuel Eliot Morison

Knowing things will not harm you. Doing them is a different matter. What you know will be a protection. What you do ruins - if it is wrong. — Gene Stratton-Porter

It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball. the best way to put it is that I have no particular method or technique per se, other than this: I plan nothing, I outline nothing, I start with an idea or an image or a line of dialogue and see where it leads me. Because I never know what the next page will contain, let alone the end of the book, I am perpetually surprised by the course that my characters take. The writing process is as full of surprises and twists for me as the reading experience is for my readers. I love the spontaneity of writing this way, the possibilities left open, the feeling that I am not constrained or committed to any given path. Every day, I am surprised by something. It may not be the most efficient way of writing, but it has served me well thus far. — Khaled Hosseini