"In an Antique Land" Quotes
Amitav Ghosh explores the connections between the medieval world and the modern world through the intertwined stories of a 12th-century Jewish merchant and a 20th-century Indian anthropologist.
history | 400 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
I have learned that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
I'm a writer and I will write what I want to write.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
