Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Pinto

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Jerry Pinto is a Mumbai-based Indian English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto's works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women (2000) and Asylum and Other Poems (2003). His first novel Em and the Big Hoom was published in 2012. Pinto won the Windham-Campbell prize in 2016 for his fiction. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom.

English - Novelist | Born: 1966

Source: Wikipedia

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

Jerry Pinto

I am no I. I am now part of a we.

Jerry Pinto

You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

Jerry Pinto

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.

Jerry Pinto

A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

Jerry Pinto

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Pinto

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