Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

A journey once begun, has no end

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

In order to have different things we must become someone different.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

I didn't know how to let you go.

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

In uplifting, get underneath.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.

I like to follow my own muse.

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.