Amit Chopra Quotes

I write in American slang.

I never learned to read music.

It`s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it`s wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell`s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

I`ve always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Is anything accidental?

If it`s not American, the French won`t go see it.

I`m not gifted, but I`m not hopeless.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

In America, if you don`t do a 100 million dollars, you`ve done nothing.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it`s not by design. The United States dominates because it`s the biggest market.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don`t have.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

I was a precocious reader.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

When you`re in the States and you`re a writer and you`ve got money and you walk into a bank, you`re a bum with money.

I get work because I`m primarily a novelist but I`ve become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.