Ruskin Bond Quotes
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Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.
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I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.
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Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.
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But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
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I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.
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Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
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It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
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I don't travel so much now, I get tired
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How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.
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To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.
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I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.
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I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can
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When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
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I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.
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There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
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To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they seemed to die and come again to life in spring, the sudden growth of the plant from the seed - all these appeared to be miracles as indeed they still are, miracles of nature!
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and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
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Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships
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To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
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Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.
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I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.
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love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day... A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!
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There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.
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The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
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People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.
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I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.
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The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!
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The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.
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But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.
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When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.
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