We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.

Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

I am so excited. I love IIFA. I think it's great to meet all the people from your fraternity in one place, that too out of the country.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.