Amish Tripathi

“This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.”

“I see everything like a movie. I laugh and cry, I smell, touch, see and describe my own experience. I don't care if this sounds strange; I am not the creator - I am only the channel. The story is given to me.”

“Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.”

“Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle Evil. The problem is the will to fight it.”

“If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign himself to his fate and not vent his fury on society at large.”

“When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.”

“Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want”

“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”

“But remember, great Good will, more often than not, lead to great Evil.”

“Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.”

“I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.”

“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?”

“Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.”

“While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.”

“I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.”

“I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?”

“I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.”

“What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.”

“When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.”

“There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.”