We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

albert einstein quotes

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.