“As you grow older, life seems funnier.” — Ruskin Bond Quote

As you grow older, life seems funnier.

My mother wanted me to join the Indian army, as the army was seen as a decent and respectable career to have. I shocked my mother by telling her that I wanted to be a writer.

I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and put in your story.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Learning a game and doing something wrong is sometimes funnier than being good at it.

Ceawlin is good at both business and the fun side. We laugh at the same old jokes, and the boys get funnier every day.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.