adversity Quotes

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.