Nana Patekar Quotes

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've ever read of his I've really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and gone deeper into the society.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.

Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.

I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they have enough going on with them that it's like a giant puzzle.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

There are a lot of layers to me.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.