A few years after my father’s death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for ‘better prospects’ in 1951. Those four years were not easy. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
I’m a pickle fiend. I like all kinds of pickles: garlic pickle, lemon pickle, mango pickle, jackfruit pickle, you name it. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
I wrote ‘Time Stops at Shamli’ in 1956, shortly after ‘The Room on the Roof’ was published, and I couldn’t find anyone to publish it. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn’t seen any. And though I still haven’t seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me – nature, hills, people, and even insects. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time. Ruskin Bond Read Quote
