Top 9 R.K. Narayan Quotes

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R. K. Narayan, (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001) was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

Famous R.K. Narayan Quotes

Life is about making right things and going on.
You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don’t cut it down.
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
If someone should ask, “how should an Opposition function?” the best answer would be, “in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.