A writer gets to live yet another life every time he or she creates a new story.


Pawan Mishra

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This new layer turns every distributor into yet another owner.
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We wanted to double team her every time she got the ball. And make her work for everything she gets.
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I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.
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Please. The boy gets a boner every time you walk into the room."
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She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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Every time she does a movie, I'm on another one. So we never really talk about work.
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A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.
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Every time he gets in a position to compete for playing time, he gets a setback none of which he can...
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What everybody did is they tripped.
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To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. Bu...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
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Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.
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Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.
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You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.
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It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.
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I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.
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Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.
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Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.
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It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.
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O woman, thou art my imperfection!
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Am I here to play ‘pass the parcel’ with my balls?
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You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.
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Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.
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A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.
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The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia.
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When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.
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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.
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Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.
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it is better to be alone than to be betrayed persistently and dumped . keeping yourself dumped in a ...
VISHAL MISHRA
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and co...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an aus...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to ...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on h...
PANKAJ MISHRA
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater...
PANKAJ MISHRA
For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much hap...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in or...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The king has been moving towards absolute monarchy, which in my view won't work. We have to persuade...
BRAJESH MISHRA
All I am saying is that the availability of fissile material has been curtailed.
BRAJESH MISHRA
But the visit of President Bush has been, in my view, a success and it has been a good visit.
BRAJESH MISHRA
Normally, what happens is that you negotiate in advance and then you sign something with the head of...
BRAJESH MISHRA
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant ren...
PANKAJ MISHRA
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic conse...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally en...
PANKAJ MISHRA
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern w...
PANKAJ MISHRA
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified d...
PANKAJ MISHRA
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary op...
PANKAJ MISHRA
In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was s...
PANKAJ MISHRA
A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignor...
PANKAJ MISHRA
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Holl...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to prov...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only re...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to ...
PANKAJ MISHRA
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the ju...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours ...
PANKAJ MISHRA
As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one s...
PANKAJ MISHRA
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a tru...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide ...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules
ANAMIKA MISHRA
Preach little, Pray more;
But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;
MISHRA ANKIT
While four people were killed on the spot, five died in hospital.
BINAYTOSH MISHRA
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. I...
PANKAJ MISHRA
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equalit...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects...
PANKAJ MISHRA