A biography for Ruskin Bondhasn’t been written yet.
“I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.”
“In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly an anonymous lot then.”
“I can't live in a room without a window.”
“I like talking to visitors, especially children.”
“I do all my thinking lying down.”
“If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.”
“No, I don't want to be a brand. Brand means I cannot go out for a quiet walk without tourists and fans constantly following me.”
“Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.”
“Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.”
“I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.”
“It's amazing to dwell in the world of fantasy and fear.”
“When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.”
“One has to be ambitious to start writing.”
“Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.”
“There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and distant relatives. They have to be distant, though; otherwise, you'll be in trouble.”
“The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.”
“The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.”
“I am not really a city person.”
“From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.”
“I wouldn't want a film to be made on my life, because I suppose I would only want them to show all the good things about me and hide the awful things, and that wouldn't be a very honest biopic, no?”