Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry CMis an Indian-born Canadian. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 July 1952
CountryCanada
children important details
Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.
secret important one-day
Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.
loss funny-things important
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.
quilts squares important
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.
long together length
How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.
balance despair fine
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
loss essentials calamity
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
perfect privacy concerts
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
fire firsts walks
Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...
real writing perception
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
country silly kind
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.
school class voice
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
memories two imagination
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
white black brain
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.