Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support.

If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.

To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.