Velayudhan Sahadevan Quotes & Sayings

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors. — Fareed Zakaria

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny. — Roh Moo-hyun

We must listen to poets. — Gaston Bachelard

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people. — Curtis Sittenfeld

How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize upon and readers expect? Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish? Where are the suburban infidelities, the promiscuities, the convulsive divorces, the alcohol, the drugs, the lost weekends? Where are the hatreds, the political ambitions, the lust for power? Where are speed, noise, ugliness, everything that makes us who we are and makes us recognize ourselves in fiction? — Wallace Stegner