Quotes About Culture

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

Living in London, drinking has just been a big part of growing up here. It's always been readily available.

I just have never got into reading.

Overall, people are reading less.

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.