Varun Iyer

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Varun Iyer is currently reading

Honor & Heresy

by Max Francis (Goodreads Author)

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"This whiny little gay boy is getting on my nerves. If this doesn’t get interesting in 50 more pages, Imma quit" — 3 hours, 46 min ago

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Varun Iyer’s Quotes

“personality makeover. Or maybe not. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like the plots of Ratatouille and Mulan combined.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“Awards don’t matter—at least, I am told this constantly by the people who regularly win them.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

tags: alienation, author, writing, writing-process

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“(I thought about posting a phone screenshot of my statement drafted in the Notes app, but Notes app apologies have become a genre in and of themselves, and not a very respectable one.)”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“which is why revulsion for Rupi Kaur’s poetry has become a millennial personality trait.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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