Pawan Mishra

“Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.”

“The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!”

“The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.”

“Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.”

“I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.”

“Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.”

“If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to.”

“Such delicacies are relationships.”

“If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.”

“Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.”

“Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.”

“If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.”

“Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.”

“One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.”

“This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty.”

“Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.”

“Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.”

“It’s strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters.”

“There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.”

“It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.”