I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

Anyone with half a mind could see that, " said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much.