Quotes from Ruskin Bond

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

I like talking to visitors, especially children.

The ghost story is a popular genre of mine and is particularly adaptable to the visual media.

Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should be your poetry when you write.

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's book.

If I set out to write 'War And Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy,' I'd be miserable.

I'm a pickle fiend. I like all kinds of pickles: garlic pickle, lemon pickle, mango pickle, jackfruit pickle, you name it.

One of the very first ghost stories I read - and that was in a forest rest house, where it is a bit scarier - was by M.R. James. He is one of the pioneers of ghost stories. And the book was called 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary.'

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognizeNo man-made border

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

The Nehru years were rather very peaceful years. A lot happened in those years: dams were built, five-year plans were made, Chandigarh was built in front of my eyes. Those were the years I grew up in.

I am a compulsive writer.

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.

For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I even took a small role in the film, of a priest.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.