“I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or...” — Kumar Mangalam Birla Quote

“I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.”

“The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.”

“The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.”

“If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.”

“The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.”

“Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.”