Nick

“The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.”
― Ruskin Bond, Landour Days: A Writer's Journal

“What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie

“I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.”
― Ruskin Bond

“I believe that mountains do affect one's personality, if one can remain among them long enough; and if Sunil had grown up in the hills instead of in a refugee township, I have no doubt he would have been a completely different person.”
― Ruskin Bond