A biography for Ruskin Bondhasn’t been written yet.
“I am a sleepy fellow. I will take a nice long nap the first chance I get.”
“I'm a pickle fiend. I like all kinds of pickles: garlic pickle, lemon pickle, mango pickle, jackfruit pickle, you name it.”
“I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.”
“I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.”
“If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.”
“I used to consider myself a loner.”
“I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.”
“I'm not very good at writing fantasy or even reading it.”
“The transition from an English father to a Punjabi stepfather demanded an adjustment that was far from easy for a 10-year-old boy who had just lost his father.”
“I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film strip running in my head. I guess that is also a reason why my books have such a visual element to them. And it's what I tell young writers: plan your story ahead.”
“A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.”
“I love to sleep.”
“Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.”
“I have been apolitical all my life.”
“My desk is right next to my bed. So I sit on my bed. I write in a big notebook which is on the desk. And if I feel drowsy, I just have to slide into bed.”
“There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.”
“Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.”
“As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to David Copperfield as a role model.”
“For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognizeNo man-made border”
“Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.”