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24 quotes by Hari Kunzru

Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British Indian novelist and journalist of Kashmiri Pandit origin, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just... →

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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think... →

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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was... →

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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for... →

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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with... →

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