Amitava Kumar > Quotes

“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”
― Amitava Kumar

“Toni Morrison read The New York Times every day with pen in hand, making corrections she felt necessary, deleting words or inserting them as she went along.”
― Amitava Kumar, A Time Outside This Time: A novel

“The nostalgia I had come to treasure was a hypertrophied sense of the past as a place, a place with street signs and a figure atop a staircase that I recognized.”
― Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana

“Write or draw or walk to save someone’s life, even if the life you are saving is your own.”
― Amitava Kumar, The Yellow Book: A Traveller's Diary

“The truth, Your Honor, is that the immigrant feels at home in guilt... the guilt of having abandoned my parents. A slippery slope, this. My father, my mother, my motherland, my mother tongue.”
― Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana