Aditya Shukla

“Strong themes and styles have to be broken down before literature can come into being. It is this breaking down that is called “writing.” Writing is more about destroying than creating.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“If you read any poetry or stories coming out these days, you know what I mean when I say that you can smell the stench of liquor coming from the words they write. And underneath their sentences lies a pile of chicken and goat bones, and the skeletons of the innocent ones. If you poke the head of the broom into contemporary literature, you'll find a hollow wall stuffed full of money — impure, dirty money.”
― Uday Prakash

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius, The Analects