“I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious ...” — Amish Tripathi Quote

“I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.”

“Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.”

“I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?”

“I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.”

“As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.”

“I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.”

“It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.”

“Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.”

“The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.”

“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”

“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.”