"Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them."

Next Quote

In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.

— Pankaj Mishra