Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.
We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.
All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.
New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.